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339:, Parnaoz, is the story of Parnaoz's return to Colchis after about 10 years in Crete. But Ino has not yet married, and the rivalry between Parnaoz and Popeye continues. Parnaoz marries his childhood friend, Tina, but he âdidnât care whom he marriedâ for he was âlooking for a refuge.. somewhere to hide from Ino.â Tina and Parnaoz soon have a son, little Ukheiro, but Parnaoz now wants to leave his wife. âParnaoz knew only one thing: whether he got together with Ino or not, he could never accept not being with her, or any substitute life offered, or anything from life.â Interwoven in this section is also the tale of Icarus and
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grandmother's wedding dress. But now, brought into the sunlight, taken out of the trunk, aired in the breeze, in front of so many curious grandchildren, it not only recovered its original softness and lightness, it reanimated its owner's intoxicating virginity, the quivering as her wedding was prepared. People's hearts swelled with pride, they choked on belated tears, and an equally belated regret distressed them, because they had so easily and casually forgotten such a fine, beautiful grandmother whose grave they could no longer find, if only to clear it of weeds and sit just for a minute at her feet (415â16).
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279:. But it is also an allegory of the treachery and destruction that ensued when Russia, and then the Soviets, annexed Georgia, as well as Chiladze's interpretation of life as a version of the ancient Anatolian story of
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512:â was in
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420:Asterodia
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313:Argonauts
281:Gilgamesh
248:in 2012.
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197:Paperback
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341:Daedalus
337:Part III
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252:Synopsis
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130:Georgian
126:Language
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