The latest addition to my website is Beka Adamashvili‘s ამ რომანში ყველა კვდება (Everybody Dies in this Novel) . This is a wonderful postmodern romp by a young Georgian writer in which a fictional character called Memento Mori tries to save characters who get killed in literature (starting with Romeo and Juliet) and then teams up with three other characters as they journey through literature, literary hell, myth, advertising, modern culture and much else. They meet Shakespeare and Dostoevsky, experiment with time travel, get caught in stories within stories within stories…, help out Robinson Crusoe, Little Red Riding Hood and the Count of Monte Cristo and deal with a planet called Kimkardash and its scientists. It is all enormous fun and the novel is framed by the story of Death who really just wants a good night’s sleep which he has trouble getting.