მითოპოეტიკური სივრცე და გზის მითოლოგემა ჯოზეფ კონრადის ნოველაში "წყვდიადის გზა"
Mythopoetic Space and the Mytheme of the Way in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Summary/Abstract: From the viewpoint of the genre, Heart of Darkness comprises all the features that pertain to modernist short fiction. However, the novella, published as early as in 1899, predates the golden age of modernism by quite a period of time. Mythopoetic space of modernist work represents its inner dimension, rife with images of symbolic and archetypal significance and their connotations. In works organized by conscious myth-making, this space is often created by alluding to archaic, biblical, or Greco-Roman cosmogonies and eschatological myths, along with allusions to ‘sacred and forbidden’ knowledge, esoteric texts, and widespread intercultural icons. Apart from special intellectualism, all such texts are unified by the common feature of non-mimetic attitude towards reality. As early as at the end of the 19th century Joseph Conrad was first to depict such an image – fictional African jungle and the winding waterway of the river, which emerges as the formative symbolic image of the space. All these symbolic and associative images distinguish the mythopoetic space of Heart of Darkness as a very important subtext – a kind of in-depth ‘text within the text’, or meta-text. It is perceived differently from the surface meaning of the work, and its symbolic and semantic connotations indicate a different kind of reality – not the one which is directly conveyed in Heart of Darkness, but as if it was ‘something else’, something specifically vague and indefinite, but ubiquitous in Conrad’s novella

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