ინიციაციის ტიპის ფრანგული მხატვრულ-ლიტერატურული ტექსტები
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2022-12
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ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტის გამომცემლობა
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In French Young Adult literature, educational, adventure, formative
or initiation-type literary texts are often referred to as synonyms,
although there is a difference between them. In contrast to educational
and adventure narratives, initiation narratives are characterized by:
1. Search for the secret meaning of life (fortress, temple, treasure,
secret...); 2. Experience (poverty, loneliness, “via dolorosa”); 3. Fight
against evil; 4. Understanding love as a means of knowing the soul; 5.
Presence of a leader; 6. Acquisition of “secret” knowledge; 6. Sharp and
fast metamorphosis-change (death) of the protagonist as the beginning
of a new life.
Not all of the above-mentioned features can be found in the
artistic-literary texts of modern French writers, which can be considered
as initiation type narratives. For example, in the small text “Lullaby” by
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, the fight against evil is nowhere to be
seen. The protagonist of the text is a teenager whose family problems
(mother’s illness and absence of father) make him feel lonely. He finds
love in proximity to nature, thus overcoming the feeling of loneliness
and despair. On the path of self-awareness and socialization, Lullaby’s
only friend is the physics teacher, and the antagonist is the school
director, who demands from Lullaby to strictly follow the school rules.
The text doesn’t tell us about dangers either, however, the discovery of
an abandoned Greek house while walking along the seashore, a meeting
with an unknown boy, an incomprehensible inscription for a Lullaby
becomes communion with secrets, as a result of which the girl begins
to perceive the existing reality differently. Lullaby’s sudden change, at
first glance, may even be strange, however, due to the caracteristics of
the genre, the writer’s intention becomes clear to the reader.
The youth literature is perceived by two addressee – representatives
of the younger and older generations. If the intended addressee is
fascinated by the narrative or the artistic side of the text, the ideal
recipient will not find it difficult to see the signs of initiation in the
literary text. Michel Tournier made things easier for the reader, who subtitled
the text «The Tale of Initiation». The reader will not fi nd evil forces in
this small text either. Unlike Le Clézio’s protagonist, little Amandine has
the best, caring and loving parents and has nothing to worry about.
The search for the secret meaning of life is the observation of a fourlegged
friend, which will lead to a sharp and rapid metamorphosis of
the coming of age story.
Both of the above-mentioned texts are united by the distinctive
characters of puberty, the charm of the unknown and the lack of action,
which distinguishes this type of narrative from the characteristics of
similar narratives.
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ფრანგული საყმაწვილო ლიტერატურა, ინიციაციის ტიპის ნარატივი, ლე კლეზიო, ტურნიე, French Young Adult literature, initiation type narrative, Le Cézio, Tournier
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პროფესორ დავით გოცირიძის 70 წლისთავისადმი მიძღვნილი სამეცნიერო კონფერენცია, თეზისები, 2022, გვ.: 95-99/ Scientific Conference DEDICATED TO THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF PROF. DAVIT GOTSIRIDZE, Abstracts, 2022, pp.: 95-99