Sergo Kldiashvili ( ka, სერგო კლდიაშვილი) (18 October 1893 – 1986) was a

Georgian Georgian may refer to: Common meanings * Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) ** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group ** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians **Georgian scripts, three scrip ...

and

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prose-writer who set out to be

Symbolist Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...

but then was drawn to conformist Realist prose under Soviet rule. He was the son of the noted novelist

David Kldiashvili David Kldiashvili ( ka, დავით კლდიაშვილი, ''Davit' Kldiašvili'') (August 29, 1862 – April 24, 1931) was a Georgia (country), Georgian prose-writer whose novels and plays are concentrated on the degeneration of the c ...

whom Sergo would dedicate a special book in 1945. He attended the

Kutaisi Kutaisi (, ka, ქუთაისი ) is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and the third-most populous city in Georgia, traditionally, second in importance, after the capital city of Tbilisi. Situated west of Tbilis ...

gymnasium which produced many of Georgia’s 20th-century intellectuals, and then studied law in

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. Returning to Georgia, he joined

Grigol Robakidze Grigol Robakidze () (October 28, 1880, Sviri (West Georgia (country), Georgia) – November 19, 1962, Geneva) was a Georgia (country), Georgian writer, publicist, and public figure primarily known for his prose and anti-Soviet émigré activities ...

’s Symbolist group

Blue Horns Tsisperqantselebi ( ka, ცისფერყანწელები; The Blue Horns) was a group of Georgian Symbolist poets and prose-writers which dominated the Georgian literature in the 1920s. It was founded as a coterie of young talented wri ...

and wrote in a moderately ''The Adventures of Squire Lakhundareli'' (აზნაურ ლახუნდარელის თავგადასავალი, 1927), the plays ''A Generation of Heroes'' (გმირთა თაობა, 1937), ''Deer’s Gorge'' (ირმის ხევი, 1944).

References

Rayfield, Donald Patrick Donald Rayfield OBE (born 12 February 1942, Oxford) is an English academic and Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London. He is an author of books about Russian and Georgian literature, and about Josep ...

(2000), '' The Literature of Georgia: A History'': 2nd edition, p. 246. Routledge, . 1893 births 1986 deaths 20th-century dramatists and playwrights from Georgia (country) 20th-century writers from Georgia (country) People from Kutais Governorate Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Dramatists and playwrights from Georgia (country) Male writers from Georgia (country) Soviet dramatists and playwrights Soviet male writers Burials at Didube Pantheon {{georgia-writer-stub