Gela Charkviani

Gela Charkviani's post-graduate studies included a semester at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1970, a period regarded as the peak of the Youth Revolution in the United States.

The book touches upon a considerable variety of issues widely regarded as significant for the newly independent nations of Eurasia and provides vital clues for today's state of affairs in the region.

In 2013 the “Artanuji Publishers” released Gela Charkviani's “An Interview with my Dad” – a dialogue between father and son, who not only belong to different generations, but also hold contrasting beliefs and dissimilar sets of values.

Already past eighty by that time Candide Charkviani was the only living person who had been directly involved in, and knew first-hand the specifics of relations between Stalin's Kremlin and the Soviet Georgia.

After several editions of the book were brought out by the Artanuji, it was translated into Italian and published in 2016 by Palombi Editori under the title “La Dimensione Georgiana di Stalin.” Charkviani's next work “Nagerala” (Self-sown seedlings) is a collection of excerpts from the notebook records he made over a period of twenty years.

The following work by Gela Charkviani published by “Intelecti” was a historical-diplomatic memoir titled “The Round Dance of Familiar Chimeras.” It is nearly 700 pages long and provides a detailed description of events that took place over the course of eleven years when Eduard Shevardnadze ruled Georgia.

Aside from politics, the book contains major elements of the author's biography – his privileged childhood and the tragedies of his later life, the death of his son and the unexpected demise of his beloved wife Nana.

The epilogue of the book deals with the author's solipsistic attempts to come to terms with the excruciating pain of loss by denying the reality of the material world, which to him is no more than a “torrent of moving chimeras.” On 23 December 2016, the Publishers’ Association of Georgia named “The Round Dance of Familiar Chimeras” National Bestseller of the year.

Charkviani in 1997