Sergo Kldiashvili

Sergo Kldiashvili ( _ka. სერგო კლდიაშვილი) (1893-1986) was a Georgian prose-writer who set out to be Symbolist but then was drawn to conformist Realist prose under Soviet rule.

He was the son of the noted novelist Davit Kldiashvili whom Sergo would dedicate a special book in 1945. He attended the Kutaisi gymnasium which produced many of Georgia’s 20th-century intellectuals, and then studied law in Moscow. Returning to Georgia, he joined Grigol Robakidze’s Symbolist group Blue Horns and wrote in a moderately decadent manner. Under the Soviet rule, he quickly converted to socialist prose. In the 1920s-30s, Kldiashvili composed several patriotic and socialist prose, including an anticlerical satire "Abesalom the Ex-Priest" (აბესალომ ნახუცარი, 1933), more effectual "The Adventures of Squire Lakhundareli" (აზნაურ ლახუნდარელის თავგადასავალი, 1927), the plays "A Generation of Heroes" (გმირთა თაობა, 1937), "Deer’s Gorge" (ირმის ხევი, 1944). Despite his conformism, Kldiashvili was arrested in the Great Purge of 1937, but was released when his (and Kolau Nadiradze’s) interrogator was executed.

References

*Rayfield, Donald (2000), "": 2nd edition, p. 246. Routledge, ISBN 0-7007-1163-5.