Mari Simonishvili
PhD Student
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Tbilisi, Georgia
ORCID: 0000-0003-4866-8870
Mari Simonishvili
PhD Student
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Tbilisi, Georgia
ORCID: 0000-0003-4866-8870
Postmodern Perspectives on Givi Margvelashvili's "Mutsali"
Abstract
Givi Margvelashvili is a famous German-speaking Georgian writer and philosopher. He was born in Berlin, in the family of Tite Margvelashvili and Mariam Khechinashvili. "He appears to us as the embodiment of the case when the fate of the son was determined by the fate or choice of the father (Margvelashvili, 2018, 213)." In 1945, father and son were taken to the Soviet occupation zone of Berlin. Tite Margvelashvili was shot soon after, while Givi was first shot in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and later brought to Tbilisi with his relatives.
Givi Margvelashvili has been writing since 1961. He was greatly impressed by the philosophy of Heidegger and Husserl. The theory of stream of consciousness allows the author to observe human consciousness through a magnifying glass and objectively analyze it. G. Margvelashvili's prose creates a unique network system with the works of other writers and is in full compliance. What he writes about is relevant at all times and seems to be foreseen.
Givi Margvelashvili created a brilliant combination of philosophy and literature. In his books, an essentially different plot develops, not the one that the author wants, but the one that is free from any conditions. The writer hates the manifestation of dictatorship in any form because he bears all the weight of the regime on himself. For him, a specific plot is a dictatorship, so his idea is that the characters behave differently after the book is closed.
The paper aims to present the postmodernist trends that reveal interesting patches of the mutual influence of the era and art, based on the discussion of Givi Margvelashvili's "Mutsali".
Givi Margvelashvili's "Mutsali" invites us, borrowing from Gadamer (Kulijanishvili, 2006, 312), to delve deeper into the essence of the work and to uncover its hidden truths. This exploration allows us to decode the layers of meaning within the text, revealing the information that is most relevant to our interests.
Keywords: Givi Margvelashvili, "Mutsali", dictatorship, postmodernism.