The Literature of Georgia — A History by Donald Rayfield queer in russia unwritten rules and know-how practices

unwritten rules and know-how practices

Drawing on over 25 years’ experience as a correspondent in Moscow

this outward-looking and accessible book offers a pioneering case study for the wider comparative exploration of the significance of technologies of the word

not just Russia

This new collection includes stories by the most famous émigré writers

The Literature of Georgia — A History by Donald Rayfield queer in russia unwritten rules and know-how practicesAcross the ages Georgia has joined the great civilization of north and south as much as east and west. Despite prolonged subjection to Byzantine, Iranian and Russian overloads for more than fifteen hundred years, its literary language has evolved to produce a broad corpus of literature that has given rise to such extraordinary works as The Knight in the Panther's skin, to poets of genius and originality such as the anonymous hymnographers of Byzantine