TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - The saga of the engineer's suicide
JO  - Fabula
A1  - Dadunashvili, E.
SP  - 241
EP  - 249
VL  - 52
IS  - 3-4
N2  - 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.<p /> <p>Language: de</p>
LA  - de
SN  - 0014-6242
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fabula-2011-0020
ID  - ref1
ER  -