Abstract:
An existential crisis, revealing the pain of human existence,
manifests itself in a number of literary texts with diverse variations
depending on the philosophical, religious or aesthetic worldview of
the authors. In this point of view, Vazha-Pshavela and Besik Kharanauli
are related to each other, in intheir work the topic of the
search for human meaning is important.
We explain a few poems by Vazha-Pshavela and Besik Kharanauli
in the intertextual context. In these texts, the stream of
thoughts of the author is aimed at finding out, understanding the
purposes of a person. The real-metaphysical spaces are arranged in
the poems. Lyrical characters are trying to break out of the
framework of life and overcome vanity. In the chronotope of poetry,
on the one hand, there is an existence hidden by pain and death,
with its monotonous routine, on the other hand, there is a striving
for the divine and sacred. Lyric characters, by their conscious choices, want to get rid of false values and give meaning to life, to their
own existence. The chivalrous spirit of the heroes of Vazha-Pshavela,
suggesting a striving for ideals, was lost in the man of the twentieth
century. In the lyric poems by Besik Kharanauli, children name the
broken unfortunate doll in honor of the main character Alexander
and thus unwittingly, naively find the exact symbol of human
essence. Alexander realizes that he is really a disabled doll who does
not even have the strength to escape. Alexander is the author’s
mask, Alter Ego. The Subjective and objective perceptions of realities
change and evoke the essence of dreams. The thinking of the
authors is philosophical and religious, which gives depth to their
texts. There are boundless possibilities of wonderful words, which
transform thoughts and ideas into new forms.
