A New Generic Form of the Novel – Elene Bochorishvili’s Stenographic Novels

Abstract

Elene Pepi Bochorishvili is a Georgian writer born in Tbilisi, currently residing in Canada, who writes in Russian. She emigrated from Georgia in 1992. She is the founder of a new novelistic genre, which she herself termed the stenographic novel, characterized by writing based on short phrases and a humor-inflected style. The creative work of the Georgian writer clearly represents a multicultural literary pheno­menon, in which Georgian ethnic themes are articulated within the context of global globalization. In stenographic novels, epochal historical events are presented in a condensed form; the narrative is primarily set in Georgia during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods.

Elene Bochorishvili’s stenographic novels constitute a new genre of intercultural literature.