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Valerian Gaprindashvili ( ka, ვალერიან გაფრინდაშვილი) (December 21, 1888 – January 31, 1941) was a

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poet and translator whose early, Symbolist, poetry was of much influence on development of Georgian metaphor and verse. Born in Kutaisi, he graduated from the Moscow University in 1914. Returning to Georgia, Gaprindashvili was one of the founder members of the Symbolist group Blue Horns in 1915/16. His early, innovating poems illustrate the world as a mystic show populated with phantoms and doubles mixed with nearly "sacral" heroes from history and literature such as

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, Hannibal, etc. His first and best book, ''Daisebi'' ("Sundowns", 1919), at a time he called "the

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night" of Georgia, introduced into Georgian the aesthetics of Baudelaire and

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, as well as the mannerisms of the Russian Symbolists. Gaprindashvili significantly distanced himself from the Georgian literary classics’ understanding of a poet's mission and suggested an outcast, mad and suicidal person as an eventual result of a poet's natural evolution. From the 1920s, like many of his fellow Symbolists, he faced an ideological pressure from the newly established

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regime which forced him to make a conciliatory move towards the standards of Soviet literature. He survived Stalinist

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of the 1930s, but his later years were unproductive. Gaprindashvili also made translations from

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Nikolay Nekrasov Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov ( rus, Никола́й Алексе́евич Некра́сов, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪtɕ nʲɪˈkrasəf, a=Ru-Nikolay_Alexeyevich_Nekrasov.ogg, – ) was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publi ...

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, and others. He also translated and published in Russian the works of the Georgian Romanticist poet

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References

*Robert B. Pynsent, Sonia I. Kanikova (1993), ''Reader's Encyclopedia of Eastern European Literature'', p. 120. Harpercollins,

External links

Sentimental Triolet
in Georgian and parallel English translation with video 1888 births 1941 deaths Burials at Didube Pantheon Male poets from Georgia (country) Symbolist poets People from Kutaisi 20th-century poets from Georgia (country) 20th-century translators 20th-century male writers {{Georgia-poet-stub