Abstract:
In recent years, taking into consideration political expediency (Abkhazian
theme) and public interest, of Akaki Tsereteli’s literary heritage his poem
Gamzrdeli (the Tutor) has established itself as highly rated in the
conventional ranked list of the writer’s works (primarily with a reader’s eye).
The interest in this poem is expressed felt in social network. However,
some readers are more fascinated in the actual reality of the plot than
artistic value of the text, and in order to satisfy their own curiosity, they
deepen their knowledge in this direction.
In any case, their attempt serves to better familiarization with the poem
and its popularization. Although it should also be noted that in a work of
fiction, the tendency to bring to the fore the true story can to some extent
harm the artistic value of the literary text and neglect those universal
problems that are shown in this poem.
The goal of our study is to display the high artistic level of the work and
an attempt to make the reader see the hidden controversy beyond the
everyday problems posed in the poem, the existence of which ranks this
poem among the best works of classic literature.
The reader will probably be interested in what kind of hidden enmity we
are talking about.
I think that the main motif of the work, which gives rise to the hostility
between Batu and Sapar-Beg, is just a preparatory work for demonstration of
the deeply hidden conflict caused by the ideological confrontation between
Batu and Haji-Iusub.
During the discussion, I will rely on the method of comparative analysis
of literary texts (Akaki Tsereteli's "Gamzrdeli" and Ilia Chavchavadze "Gandegili"),
that helps me to gain an insight into character of the main
protagonists and understand the main idea of the work.
I would like to remind the reader that the Georgian critics noticed the
similarity between these two works from the very beginning.
