Literature

O. Goliadze

Representation of the Reader in the Ancient Georgian Literature

The creative world of the ancient Georgian scribes, the sphere of their interests is quite universal. Besides dominant problems, in the writings of hagiographists, not a single moment is observed, which seems quite unusual for the literal principals of their times, for example, the reader's world, which is mostly perceived in specific introductions of compositions.

Different from hagiography, the relationship with the reader does not almost exist in the heroic "Amirandarejaniani".

The author of "The Knight in the Tiger's Skin" always, almost in any situation and in any case honors the phenomena, which is called the reader or listener; even when in this or that episode, the reader of private letters is concerned. Likewise, the historian - Vakhushti perfectly realizes generally the reader's and privately the Georgian reader's national self-consciousness, political conscious, intensification and improvement of education.

Georgian writers of so called "Revival Epoch", especially S.-S. Orbeliani and D. Guramishvili, the writers and enlighteners of their times, present the lively passages of relationship with reader and listener.

 

Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
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