ვაჟა ფშაველა 150
Vazha-Pshavela 150

Summary/Abstract: This year Georgia is celebrationg Vazha-Pshavela’s, the great Georgian writer’s 150th anniversary. Today, in the epoch of increasing development of intercultural communications, new interpretation of the creative heritage of Vazha-Pshavela, as an outstanding representative of Georgian literary thinking, take on special signifi cance, as well as his valuable integration in wide scale intercultural dialogue. For the modern world philological society Vazha’s fi ction is noteworthy in many respects: Vazha-Pshavela’s literary heritage, with its themes and purposes, is a classical example of the epoch of the late realism; Vazha-Pshavela’s creative work is a center of gravity on which 20th-century Georgian literary processes are based; For today’s Georgian (and not only Georgian) society Vazha-Pshavela is a writer oriented on the topical “Caucasian Theme” with rare awareness; In spite of the fact that dwelling locality of Vazha-Pshavela’s characters is of micro-ethnographical nature, the compositions are universal by their plot; The ethnographic world refl ected in the texts is socially so archaic that many of its elements become familiar and close for specialists only through Vazha’s poetry; Consideration of Vazha-Pshavela’s fiction, his poetry is impossible without knowing mythological world outlook, namely Georgian mythology and folkloric tradition. Today is very important to overview Vazha-Pshavela’s intellectual heritage and to highlight the mythological-folkloric thinking as coordinating conceptual trend of world literature. Vazha-Pshavelas intellectual heritage already belongs to the world intellectual inheritance. His genius writing not only reflects the universal literary canon, but expands it due to his creative originality and infinite fantasy.

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