Little Caucasian Divan

A very personal travelogue about Georgia, which gives information about people, history and poetry of this country. And in addition: a collection of Georgian poems from eight centuries, translated by Adolf Endler. "Zwei Versuche, über Georgien erzählen" is a poetic travelogue by Adolf Endler, first published in 1976. Together with his writer colleague Rainer Kirsch, Endler was invited to Georgia for several months to get to know the country's poetry and its living representatives and translate it into German. There were initiated official meetings, but the longer the two German poets were there, the more precisely and deeply they got to know the real conditions on site, the more they learned in the private setting of colleagues from Georgia who were "unwanted" by the powerful. The result is an extensive anthology.