Mediating function of Russian literature in the development of the Polish-Georgian literary relations Cover Image

К вопросу о „посредничестве” русской литературы в развитии польско-грузинских литературных связей
Mediating function of Russian literature in the development of the Polish-Georgian literary relations

Author(s): Vera Ocheli
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: literature; mediator; interrelation; closeness; history;

Summary/Abstract: The article describes one of the types of the literary „mediation” - the mediator-story,presented from the history of Polish-Georgian literary relations of XIX century. It is shown thatthe stories of the Russian historian and writer E.P. Karnovich Stanislaw August, King of Polandand Panna Elzbieta, reflecting the individual episodes in the history of Poland and translated intoGeorgian, played the role of „mediator” in familiarizing Georgian reader with the details of the lifeand work of the last Polish king Stanislaw August Poniatowski II. The study also gives the reasonto believe that the stories of Russian writer gave the opportunity to see the similarity of somestages of the historical development of Poland and Georgia, and the proximity of the role played inthe destiny of their country last Polish king Stanislaw August Poniatowski II and the last king ofGeorgia Giorgi Bagrationi XII.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: XXI
  • Page Range: 237-245
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian