იბრაჰიმ ალ-ქუნის "ოქროს ქვიშა" და რომანი-გამოცდის თავისებურებანი
Gold Dust by Ibrahim Al-Koni and Features of Novel of Trial

Summary/Abstract: Gold Dust by a contemporary Libyan writer, Ibrahim al-Koni is a modern novel. With regard to the construction of an image of a main character, Mikhail Bakhtin identifies several types within the variety of novelistic genre; they include the novel of trial of a hero in which the events described provide an arena for the protagonist’s trial and struggle. Here, the main character is the driving force of the plot, while the environment and minor characters merely serve as the protagonist’s decoration and background. Ibrahim al-Konis’s Gold Dust is the novel of trial as such. The inner world and the spiritual journey of the hero who remains isolated from his family as well as his tribe, and society fit into the focus of the novel. Here, Ukhayyad, one of the offsprings of the nomadic tribe of Tuareg is being tested. His resilience and the ability to endure pain, his perseverance, freedom, love and loyalty undergo a trial. Basic content of the trial boils down to the story of mutual love and devotion between the main character and his piebald camel; however, the trial themes pertain to the philosophical categories of love and devotion to the primary cause, and those of freedom and servitude, eternal and frail, time and transient world, and life and death. There is no precise indication of the time of trial; the desert is the place of trial.

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