Abstract:
Observation of modern literary life shows us how difficult it is to
generalize real life and present living personalities as literary characters,
who will be able to present the problems that exist today in artistic forms
and also show the way to solve them to the reader.
From our point of view, we can assess the first half of the 19th
century as the boundary of different epochs, in which we see the social
crisis of late feudalism, the change of consciousness, the confrontation
of imperial laws with Georgian law, the abolition of national customs and
new economic relations and many others.
We can boldly say that without literature, other fields of science
would be completely powerless to get acquainted with the life and people
of that time, their views on various issues that give us a vivid idea of
the past two centuries, describe our compatriots, their lives, interests,
relationships Forms, which in itself depicts the whole epoch, sociopolitical
and cultural reality.
In this case, naturally, the fact that Giorgi Eristvi was the first writer
to be able to do this, is very important. Kita Abashidze develops this idea
when he relies on the theory of evolution (Ferdinand Brunettieri) and
mentions only Giorgi Eristavi among the realists of the 19th century as the founder of this current, who first gave us a realistic picture of Georgia at
that time and painted such a living environment. .
Andukapar, Paul Ivan, Beeglar, Mikritum, these are the characters
who first introduced us to the real (realistic) images of life at that time and
were able to present them to the reader (viewer) in a satirical-humorous
genre.
They have undergone minor modifications throughout the century,
and it is not at all surprising that the gallery of characters in classical
literature is still recognizable by their character, a typical generalized look.
I am sure that our readers, who have mastered the specifics of
reading dramaturgical works, will be able to see the literary virtues that
are undoubtedly seen in the famous plays of the writer Giorgi Eristavi.
The article presented at the conference will discuss these issues
and, in general, the merit of Giorgi Eristavi before Georgian literature.