Citation

Dadunashvili E. Fabula 2012; 52(3-4): 241-249.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012)

DOI

10.1515/fabula-2011-0020

PMID

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Abstract

Stories about the engineer's suicide due to an apparent blunder he committed in the construction of a tunnel have been recorded in the Alps as well as in Georgia. In both regions, the contents are similar: the tunnel is constructed from both sides; the two tunnels apparently fail to meet; the engineer commits suicide; the two tunnels meet belatedly; the cause of the delay is explained. In the Caucasus, the story seems to have already been known in the nineteenth century; it has been revived in the period of Stalinist repression (1937-39) which gave rise to a change in the motivation for the suicide. © Walter de Gruyter Berlin · Boston.

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