various prominent artists. There is only one tense in The Snake’s Skin – present, but it includes past and future as well. The main thing is reality, but myths and legends are part of this reality. The way of thinking is not only particularly human, but at the same time metaphysical and idealistic. The personages of the novel do not live in the particular time period, or represent persons with concrete nationality. The author describes a generalized citizen of the world that gets transformed into a particular person or in other words, returns to his roots (actual father, motherland), oneself, and the God. This is an adventure of Archibald Mekeshi’s soul, taking place throughout the centuries. Further reading Avetisian, Violeta. "The Third Shore of Grigol Robakidze and Vladimir Nabokov". Intellectual 16 (2011): 15–23, (in Russian). Avetisian, Violeta. "The Chronotope of Nature in the Artistic World of G. Robakidze's The Snake's Skin". Intellectual 17 (2011): 23–28, (in Russian). Avetisian, Violeta. "The Chronotope in Grigol Robakidze's Novel The Snake's Skin". Intellectual 18 (2012): 37–46, (in Georgian). Avetisian, Violeta. "The Chronotope of 'Remembrance' in Vladimir Nabokov's Mashenka and in Grigol Robakidze's The Snake's Skin". Publisher: European Narratology Network, November 2013: 1–4, (in English). Avetisian, Violeta. "A Dialogue of East and West in Grigol Robakidze's Novel The Snake's Skin". Mermisi, 2013: 93–96, (in Georgian). Avetisian, Violeta. "The Concept of Road in the Narrative Space of Grigol Robakidze’s The Snake's Skin". The Kartvelologist 6 (March 2014), (in English and in Georgian). Avetisian, Violeta. "The Perception of Time and Space: Crossing the Spatiotemporal Boundaries in Vladimir Nabokov's Mary and in Grigol Robakidze's The Snake's Skin". Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 15, no. 1 (April 2014), (in English). External links Geoliteka (former IM Books Publishing), publisher of “Ali and Nino – Literary Robbery!” Life and Works of Grigol Robakidze in Georgian Life and Works of Grigol Robakidze in English Novel – Goodreads.com References 1926 German-language novels Literature of Georgia (country) 1926 Georgian novels Modernist novels Expressionist works Existentialist novels Georgian magic realism novels