The personages of the novel
do not live in the particular time period, or represent persons with concrete nationality
snake skin The author describes 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
cobra snake skin According to Grigol Robakidze’s nephew, Rostom Lominashvili, “During the First World War, Grigol Robakidze was in Iran. It was there that The Snake’s Skin took shape” Grigol Robakidze himself states that the idea for The Snake’s Skin was generated in Iran: “The idea of The Snake’s Skin came to me in the summer of 1917 in Hamadan…”