Kvachi / Mikheil Javakhishvili ; translated by Donald Rayfield
- Author
- Javaxišvili, Mixeil, 1880-1937
- Uniform Title
- Kvachi Kvachantiradze. English
- Published
- Champaign, [Illinois] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2014.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Physical Description
- 538 pages ; 22 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Rayfield, Donald, 1942-
- Series
- Language Note
- Translated from the Georgian.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Chapter One -- Kvachi's Birth -- Kvachi's Parents -- Getting Noble Status from Ashordia -- Kvachi's Youth -- Kvachi's Character -- The First Hard-Earned Rouble -- Kvachi's Ordeal -- His First Step -- Graduating from School and Rescuing a Widow -- Music Studies -- Buying a House -- Going to Russia to Seek His Dream Woman -- Making Friends and a Little Money, and Finding a Dream Woman -- Chapter Two -- Founding a Group of Comrades and Settling in with a New Dream Woman -- Isaac's Liberation and Kvachi's First Love's Flight -- Madame Lapoche -- A Jinxed Love Affair -- Ending Two Love Affairs -- Bankruptcy and the Boxwood Spoon -- Kvachi Becomes a Salesman -- Insuring a Life and a House -- Making a Profit from Insurance -- Chapter Three -- Studying Banking and Panicking an Associate -- Kvachi and his Friends Move to Petersburg -- Beginning a New "Job" -- Getting to Know a Holy Old Man and Other Men of Power -- The Holy Man's Secretary and Bodyguard -- Cracking New Big Jobs -- The Holy Man's Character -- Intimidating the Holy Man, and Spying on Others -- Saving the Holy Man -- Jumping to the Top of the Ladder -- Saving the Throne and Russia from Turmoil -- Kvachi's Award, A Woman's Apology, and a Few Other Things -- Holy Grigory's "Passport", and Flogging a Fornicator -- The Holy Man's Penitence, and Crashing the Stock Exchange -- The Last Supper -- Chapter Four -- The Break-Up of the Comrades' Lair -- Meeting the Emir and Kvachi's Muteness -- Going a Little Mad in Vienna and Visiting the Capital of the World -- Touring the Modern Babylon and a Short Discussion -- The Thoughts of the Worldly Idelsohn -- Visiting Nightclubs and Renewing Old Affections -- Resurrecting Old Love and Finding New Passion -- The Museum of Art -- The Break-up of Kvachi's Harem -- A Conversation and Three Comrades' Return to the Motherland -- Lady Harvey's and Kvachi's Passionate Affair -- The Story of a Really Big "Job" -- Jewels, a Madhouse, a Duel, A Motion Picture, and Many Heroic Deeds -- Chapter Five -- A Secret Obligation and the Return to Russia -- The "Good Samaritan" and Kvachi's New Success -- How a Major Military Job was "Pulled" -- Kvachi's Amazing Transformation, and a Lost Battle Won -- A Strange Delirium -- Kvachi's Quarrel with People at the Top -- A Change of Direction and Kvachi's Prophecy -- Giving Thanks and Distorting History -- Falling into a Trap and Getting out of It -- Getting Trapped Again, Avoiding the Noose, and the Country's Explosion -- Chapter Six -- The Society of Defenders of the Revolution and Founding the Free Socialist Party -- The First Command, July, and Building a New Bridge -- Kvachi and the Comrades Turn Red and Prepare for October -- Red October -- Jobs Botched While Ivan Burns in October's Fires -- The Story of Samtredidze -- Karapet Shulavriants -- A Bloody Battle -- Returning to the Motherland and Bringing a Coffin -- Chapter Seven -- Running About on One's Home Ground -- First Steps -- Neither Here nor There -- Kvachi at War -- 25 February and Kvachi Turns Red -- Kvachi's Loyal Service and Rescue by Madame NEP -- Kvachi's Engagement -- Rachel's Infidelity -- Raking Over the Past, and a Miracle -- Fleeing an Ungrateful Motherland -- Reliving Old Times.
- Summary
- "This is, in brief, the story of a swindler: a Georgian Felix Krull, or perhaps a cynical Don Quixote, named Kvachi Kvachantiradze. He is a womanizer, cheat, perpetrator of insurance fraud, bank robber, associate of Rasputin, filmmaker, revolutionary, and pimp. Though originally denounced as pornographic, Kvachi's tale is one of the great classics of twentieth-century Georgian literature--and a hilarious romp to boot" --
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781564788795 pbk
1564788792 pbk - Note
- "Originally published in Georgian as Kvachi Kvachantiradze" -- Verso title page.
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