აგიოგრაფიის მკითხველი
A Reader of Hagiography

Summary/Abstract: A text does not exist without a reader. The life of a text is conditioned by communication with the reader. Communication starts before the encounter. Prior to encountering a text, the reader recognizes the authority of the text. If you do not recognize the dictatorship of the text, you fail to become a reader. Self-belief that you choose the text by yourself is wrong. The text chooses you. Hence, you do not choose, you are chosen. You are a means of reading the text, a tool to enliven the text. This means that the text imposes conditions on you. If you do not take into consideration these conditions or break the rules of communication, a literary work won’t let you come closer to it; it won’t open up, trust you. The rules of communication include the recognition of the primacy of the text – its aesthetic, ethical and poetic principles; its destination, purpose, importance. Not as you understand, but as it should be. The reader unconditionally acknowledges the authority of a text which implies the influence, effect and dictate. The reader is not permitted to go beyond the limits of the law of genre but he is allowed to enter the narrative, to become a participant in narrative events, to put oneself in the place of a character. The reader should enter the text as a hotel room, where everything belongs to you, but not your property. While you are in the text, the nuances are all yours, exist for you, serve you, but you know that you don’t have to change anything, alter, remove or throw away. The reader feels that his will and perception are secondary. The author’s will is not primary either. The primacy belongs to the law, the law of the genre. A good reader is the one who follows the author and knows what the law is. A literary work is not created just only by the author and the law. It is also created by the time, history and culture.

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