ვაჟა-ფშაველას უცნობი პუბლიკაციები. Vazha-Pshavela’s unknown publications
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2021
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ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტის გამომცემლობა
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Vajra’s rich literary heritage is not fully known to the reader. Some
of his letters and works are with hitherto unknown pseudonyms.
Collaborators of the well-known Georgian newspaper “Iveria”, as it
usually happened at that time, often published their writings with
pseudonyms and initials. Vazha, as an active collaborator of “Iveria”,
had his pseudonyms too: “Paraskeva”, “V-a p-la”, “Ikauri”, “Zhulika
Gogochuri”, etc. The cognoscente of Georgian periodical press of the
second half of the 19-th century would have noticed one common,
interesting publicist manner - the polemic of a pseudonymous author
with a fictional person. It is thought that the articles published
under the rubric “Letter to a Friend”, which are dedicated to one addressee
“Brother Ekvtime” and represent a logical continuation of
each other, belong to Vazha-Pshavela. 14 Interesting publicist letters?
This is a polemic between two friends - Mamuka, the childhood
friend of Ekvtime, who had been in Russia for a long time, from time to time apprises him about the good or bad events of the life of the
homeland. In these articles there is reviewed the anguish of Georgia
and seeking the ways out of the current difficult situations. It is noteworthy
that when solving the problems narrated in these letters and
discussing social or national issues, Vazha is presented as a typical
member of “sixties”. It is also interesting to note that the total number
of Vazha’s letters known up to this date, published in 1880-93,
does not exceed the number of articles reviewed here. Obviously, the
significance of this material is special for further study of the publicist
heritage of the great Georgian writer.
There are also Vazha-Pshavela’s other unknown Tianetian publications.
They are published under various pseudonyms. Among
them, before the October Revolution many letters were published in
magazines and newspapers under the pseudonym “Well-wisher” .
In 1890 an extensive correspondence was published in the newspaper
“Iveria” under the pseudonym “Temporary Tianetian” with the
title “Voice from the province”. This letter is humorous and refers to
the social blameworthiness or wrongness in Tianeti. This letter was
followed by a disarrangement among the intelligentsia of the district,
although the author could not be identified. Who could it have been?
Who had taken it to heart in the 90s of the 19th century, who could
write with such highly artistic humor. After returning from St. Petersburg,
Vazha settled in the village of Chargali, in his maternal home.
He often visited the center of the region - Tianeti. By an unusual
cycle of his feuilletons and correspondence he provided the public
with the news of that place. It is thought that the above mentioned
letter should also be considered as part of this cycle. This is evidenced
by the manner of writing characterizing only Vazha and the coincidence
of thoughts with other letters, the style, the phraseology
characterizing of the writer, the specifics of the opening a question,
the ways of finding the causes of shortcomings and getting rid of
them, etc. After a long research it was found that some of the above-mentioned
and some other letters, brilliant samples of unknown publications,
which we have not reviewed here (“Heroes of Ildakni “, “Tianeti
Mazra”, “ Situation of Tianeti “, etc.), are part of Vazha-Pshavela’s literary
heritage. How reliable these versions are, will be shown in the
future, because Vazha-Pshavela’s problematics, style, language and
pathos perceived as contemporary also in other epochal locations of
time, as a Georgian classical heritage.
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უცნობი, ფსევდონიმები, პოლემიკა, პუბლიცისტური, მანერა, unknown, pseudonyms, polemic, publicistic, manner
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ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტის ჰუმანიტარულ მეცნიერებათა ფაკულტეტის ახალი ქართული ლიტერატურის ისტორიის კათედრა, XIX საუკუნე − ეპოქათა მიჯნა, სამეცნიერო შრომათა ჟურნალი N 2, თბილისი, 2021, გვ. 99-108 / Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Faculty of Humanities Department of History of New Georgian Literature, XIX CENTURY – AT THE CROSSROADS OF EPOCHS, JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC WORKS N 2, Tbilisi, 2021, pp.: 99-108