Tsisperi mtebi anu daudjerebeli ambawi

A young up-and-coming poet submits his manuscript to the literary institute for review. But the bureaucracy is fully occupied with itself and puts off the stubborn applicant time and time again. With wit and humour, Eldar Schengelaia takes aim at the inflexibility of the bureaucratic apparatus, philistinism, laziness and slovenliness in this bitterly wicked satire. Beginning sedately, the story escalates in seemingly increasingly ritualised repetitions into an absurdly surreal parable: soon it is questionable whether the manuscript exists at all or whether it is merely the rhetorical starting point for a subtle, excellently constructed reflection on intellectual indifference and human inertia. (red)