Otar Chiladze’s „Avelum“ – A Novel Depicting the Georgian Reality of the 1980-1990s

Abstract

All the novels created by Otar Chiladze (except for the first ones) depict the important events that took place in the Georgian reality from the end of the XVIII to the end of XX century in the chronological order. The writer made the depiction of these events more impressive by linking the life fate of the characters closely to them, and in this way he managed to more impressively show the determining role of the epochal reality in thebiographies of the people living in that time. “Avelum” (1995) is the proof of the authentic features that is characteristic
of Otar Chiladze’s novels.