Abstract:
Ilia’s main message and question-dilemma reveals itself at the
finale of the Letters of a Traveler. All the other parts and episodes of
the plot, the creative-image system are organized gradually and are
directed towards one target center, serve the cause of showing the
mentioned. In return, the given main idea knot of the literary work
defines and gives sense to all the episodes of the essay. Such interrelation
solidifies the whole work and in the time-space flow, Letters
of a Traveler transforms into the chronicles of “nation’s ulcer”, “luck
and misfortune”, movement-immobility, the light and the darkness,
search for and setting of future roads.
“Povoska”, “Iamshchik”, “Podporuchik”, “Fransieli” and realities
affiliated with them are the thinking image-ideas tied into one
system; they are the images of Georgia’s present, real life, which, at
the same time turn our sight towards the past; they show the painful
reality more clearly, which, by the author’s intention, serve the task
of moving the nation, awakening it.
