Flight without a barrel
Flight without a barrel (Georgian original edition: ფრენა უკასროდ ; Tiflis 2001) is a picaresque novel by Micho Mosulishvili .
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The title
The title of the novel is an allusion to Goethe's Faust. In the scene "Auerbachs Keller" a witness believes that Mephistopheles is riding out on a barrel. Lange states that the modern consciousness that is on its own, beyond religious and social institutions, can be derived from the "Faustian myth" because there it seems to receive grace, but for our heroes an American " joint " is also necessary for such a flight enough.
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It is the year 2000. As in almost every post-Soviet country, unemployment and poverty prevail in Georgia's capital Tbilisi.
The 30-year-old singer Dito Kinkladse plans to propose to his friend Marischka, an artist. However, Marischka received a proposal from a woman to hold a sales exhibition of her works in Dresden, Bonn and Munich for USD 11,000. In order to receive this sum, Dito lends his five-room apartment in the old town to the “Caucasus Bank” and pays the stranger, who shortly afterwards disappears without a trace with the money and thirty works by Marischka.
Now you have to stop the bank from selling the apartment. So Dito and his friend start kidnapping cars and selling them in Ossetia. They want to pay the bank interest with the money they collect.
One day Dito is informed by his mother, who has turned their apartment into a fortress against intrusive bailiffs, that Marischka has married a German millionaire and has moved to Germany. Ditto sells his Kalashnikov and other weapons and also travels to Germany to look for Marischka.
Arrived in Frankfurt am Main, Dito Kinkladze applies for asylum and is sent to an asylum seeker camp in Schwarzenfeld, in the Schwandorf district. Soon afterwards his friends join him. In Schwarzenfeld he met a Nigerian drug dealer and apart from shoplifting he was now also involved in drug trafficking. In this way, Dito Kinkladse succeeds in paying off the bank debt and saving his apartment. But one day the police discovered stolen goods in Dito's home and he was deported. At the same time, Dito learns from his friend that Marischka works in a camouflaged brothel in the Regensburg “Weekend Yacht Club”.
When Marischka and her three customers go to the yacht club, accompanied by two guards, they are attacked by Dito and his friends. They kidnap Marischka and take her to Dito's apartment. Ditto is furious and decides to take revenge on Marischka. She has to sexually satisfy Dito's six friends. They then leave Dito's apartment forever to return to Tbilisi by car. They left Marischka on the street.
So that Ditto doesn't cause any problems on the way, his friends repeatedly administer drugs to him. This is how they arrive in their hometown. Soon afterwards the owner of the “Weekend Yacht Club” comes to Tbilisi. He starts a radio station and organizes a beauty pageant. The winners are sent to Germany to work for him in the brothel. Ditto and his friends are now busy with the beauty pageant. Ditto receives a letter from his Nigerian friend, from which he learns that he works for the owner of the “Weekend Yacht Club” in Nigeria and that he fulfills the same tasks as Dito. Marischka drowned in the Danube under unexplained circumstances.
Characters in the novel
- Ditto Kinkladse (Georgian crooks)
- Pupa Koguashvili (Georgian crook)
- Kacha Burnadze (Georgian crook)
- Bozo Antschibua Oduduwua (Nigerian as well as)
- Safa Tschuku Tschuku (Nigerian as well as)
- Willi Sabellicus (German crook)
- Christian Schwerdtlein (German crooks)
- Marishka (Georgian women)
- Ananke (Nigerian women)
expenditure
- Micho Mossulishvili: Flight without a barrel. Sulakauri, Tiflis 2001, ISBN 99928-914-2-4 .
- Micho Mossulishvili: Flight without a barrel. Gumbati-2007, Tiflis 2011, ISBN 978-9941-0-3160-1 .
Web links
- Narration number 1. Why should one go to Germany of all places? Translated by Katja Wolters
- How can you fly in Germany? Review of the picaresque novel “Flight without a barrel” by Micho Mosulishvili, which was published twice in Georgia between 2001 and 2011.
- Pʻrena ukasrod: romani LC control no .: 2002532432, LC classification: PK9169.M64 P74 2001
- Pʻrena ukasrod: romani OCLC number: 50646027
- Flight Without a do , review by Andro Enukidze
- Pʻrena ukasrod 2 editions
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Bauer : The picaresque novel (= Metzler Collection. 282). Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 1994, ISBN 3-476-10282-3 .
- ^ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust: the tragedy first and second part; Urfaust; commented by Erich Trunz . CH Beck, 1986 ( full text in the Google book search).
- ↑ Victor Lange: Images, Ideas, Terms: Goethe Studies . Königshausen & Neumann, 1997 ( full text in the Google book search).
- ↑ http://openlibrary.org/books/OL3660238M/P%CA%BBrena_ukasrod
- ↑ http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24988617M/P%CA%BBrena_ukasrod