ABSTRACT
The Age of Internationalism literature of a whole generation of writers. Post-war Georgian prose was in the hands of survivors, such as Gamsakhurdia, whose talent had fossilized. But at least one of the new generation killed in action with the Red Army showed real promise: Mirza Gelovani (806J8() o:JC:::::(T)3()6o, 1917-44) had attracted attention at the age of 16 with his childlike wonderment at nature. Some of his war poems transcend patriotic heroics and invest the horror of war with a naive enjoyment that dimly recalls Apollinaire's fascination under fire.
