A Depiction of the City Life of Georgia in Julier Chevalier's Novel “Noah’s Grandchildren''

Abstract

Noah’s Grandchildren by Julier Chevalier represents one of the most outstanding and significant works, giving a vivid description Georgian history and its Customs. The author, being American, arouses great interest as well.

The story includes lots of interesting points of exceptional importance but in the above-mentioned paper I'll focus on depicting the city life in Georgia.

As it is obvious and easily noticed from the novel, the population of Batumi at that time was multinational. Russians, Greeks, Turkish, Armenians, Kurds, Persians lived there including Georgians of course. Chevalier provides us with some information of particular significance not only about working lives of aliens in Batumi, but about their everyday ones and customs as well.

The novel draws our attention to the description of Tbilisi as the most important city in our country. According to the author, Tbilisi, like Batumi is the typical city characteristic to Asia. The American author's interest while describing or presenting the city's specific sides, makes the story the focus of attention and interest.

Despite the fact, that the information given by Julier Chevalier is not always free from errors, it can still be considered as a very interesting and considerable work for the researchers interested in Georgian history and its customs.