Some Issues of Mikheil Javakhishvili’s Prose and Sherwood Anderson’s Grotesque Man Cover Image

მიხეილ ჯავახიშვილის პროზის ზოგიერთი საკითხი და შერვუდ ანდერსონის გროტესკული ადამიანი
Some Issues of Mikheil Javakhishvili’s Prose and Sherwood Anderson’s Grotesque Man

Author(s): Nestan Kutivadze
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Comparative Study of Literature, Georgian literature
Published by: ლიტერატურის ინსტიტუტის გამომცემლობა
Keywords: Grotesque Man; Artistic face; Tragedy;

Summary/Abstract: The beginning of the 20th century turned out to be an important period for the whole world in terms of state, public and social-cultural development. Worldview changes led to many noteworthy events of the subsequent period, and it included not only those countries where the most difficult process of changing formations was underway, but also those ones where new prospects for social and economic development started to emerge. In this regard, radically different processes were taking place in Georgia and the United States of America. Objective realities create different socio-economic and public situations in any country, and the peripeteias of a person’s spiritual existence always cross the boundaries of this concreteness. Along with the individual aspirations, people also have similar, common yearnings which are reflected in fiction with all the national-individual alterations. The era of social transitions is always hard and difficult for people, no matter what stratum of society they belong to. The aim of the present paper is to show the peculiarities of the literary conceptualization of one problem accompanying the social changes on the example of the works of prominent writers of the 20th century: Mikheil Javakhishvili (1880-1937) and Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941).

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 245-254
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Georgian