ფრიადი სარგებელი
Much Benefit

Summary/Abstract: The review covers the first volume of the chrestomathy of literary theory. The reviewer makes emphasis on the origins of general literary theory, its ideological fate in the Soviet epoch and the current situation in Georgia. He welcomes this type of projects and considers that the outcome of the joint project of Shota Rustaveli institute of Georgian Literature and the Institute of General and Comparative Literary Studies of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, the first volume paves the way for the future development of a new literary-theoretical opinion in Georgian literary critical sphere. The author expresses regret towards the delay in publishing the course-book edition oriented on the subject, systematically selected texts and passages, however he prefers to promote future plans rather than criticize the past and represents the supervisors of this and some similar projects, Irma Ratiani and her colleagues (compilers of this first volume): Venera Kavtiashvili, Gaga Lomidze, Tamar Lomidze, Maia Ninidze, Solomon Tabutsadze, Rusudan Tsanava. As the reviewer remarks, the edition is not limited to the course-book function and represents a reading book for literary critics, as the great number of the texts displayed in the chrestomathy were unavailable up to present; Aristotle’s treaty translated by Bachana Bregvadze can serve as a proof, not to mention Sergi Danelia’s two editions being published within 35-year gap. In order to form a complete opinion about the collection the reviewer represents the displayed texts and their authors: Upanishads, Plato, Aristotle, Horace, St. Augustine, Nicolas Boileau, Vakhtang VI, Anton I a Catholic, Mamuka Baratashvili, Denis Diderot, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Hegel, Coleridge, Belinsky, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Ilia Chavchavadze, Ipolit Tenny. The reviewer considers it crucial to embed Georgian conceptual explications in a wide context, as the perception and realization of Georgian literary discourse and its representation as a whole are essential. Georgian material represents the organic part of the process of European literary studies.

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