The Lizard on the Tombstone
4,400 ֏
Additional information
| Dimensions | 13 × 20 cm |
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| ISBN | 978-9939-9301-6-9 |
| Cover | Hardcover |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 184 |
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Description
Archil Kikodze’s “The Lizard on the Tombstone” is a text rich in symbolism and allusions. It portrays the ever-relevant conflict between past and present, memory and forgetfulness, death and life.
The narrator consciously refuses to forget the shocks of childhood, the disappointments and pains of youth, even when they make his existence almost unbearable. The main character is a person filled with images of the past, sadness, dreams, love, and loneliness, whose life resembles scattered pieces of a mosaic.
Through the storm of his thoughts, emotions, and feelings, the novel emphasizes its primary dramatic lines. The first is the tragic life and death of the narrator’s friend, the painter Gigo; the second is the delicate relationship between the hero and his mother.
