Dyskurs neoimperialny w prozie Wasilija Dimowa
Russian Neo-Empire Discourse in Vasilii Dimov’s Fiction

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the images of Georgians in Vasilii Dimov’s fiction. In the novel Tbilissimo, the image of Georgians is mythical, they are introduced as proud and selfless people who preserve their patriarchal tradition and celebrate life. This image is connected to the romantic mythologization of the Caucasus as an exotic periphery of the empire. In his later works Kafkazus and Anabechdi, written in a different political situation (after the war in South Ossetia and Abkhazia 2008), Dimov destroys this myth by presenting Georgians in an anti-mythical way: as a nation of traitors, drunks, and easily managed senseless puppets. Consequently, the image of a nation is formed by various influences, such as the political situation and the author's own changing attitude towards it.

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