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15 March 2018
ABSOLUTE DARKNESS BY LEVAN BERDZENISHVILI
14:30
Location:
Leipzig
Leipzig Book Fair, Forum Literatur Halle 5: Stand K600, Messe-Allee 1, 04356 Leipzig, Germany
Organizer: Georgian National Book Center, Mitteldeutscher Verlag
Author: Levan Berdzenishvili
Moderator: Christiane Hengevoß
Interepreter: Kakhaber Lominadze
Publisher: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2018
Partner: Konrad Adenauer Foundation Regional Program Political Dialogue in South Caucasus
Absolute Darkness
holds a rare place between being a historical work and a novel. It is based entirely on true events, but brings stories together which could only be found in fiction. Spending several years in a prison camp, he came to know people that he would never have met elsewhere: people from across 15 countries of the USSR - leading writers, professors, scientists, teachers: all great people of wisdom, different in nationality but all sharing the same absurd fate. Each chapter holds someone’s name as a title: names of people that were imprisoned with him. Developing deep friendships, spending nights in political, philosophical and artistic discussion, these people were thrown in jail as a means of suppression. But an "enlightened" person knows how to make his time interesting. This is a story about how the Soviet system kept its best minds in the dark. But how did illuminated minds made this darkness holy?!