Vol. 15 (2021): XV International Symposium Contemporary Issues of Literary Studies : Literature and Pandemic. Historical and Thematic Experience
Pandemic as a Core Theme of the Text

Modernist Illness – Spleen in the City

Tamar Paichadze
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Published 2021-12-20

Keywords

  • Symbolism,
  • Literature,
  • Intertext,
  • Urban Text,
  • Philosophy

Abstract

 

Spleen is a disease of the modernist city.
The place of modernists is colorful, ugly, asystemic, chaotic and indifferent city – that is, it is the absolute antipode to the landscape, of the aesthetic world. The Creator feels part of this difficult and difficult world and the advance of his creative life is here as well. This perception is parallel to the worldview that has become a hallmark of modernist methodology and is reflected in French, Russian and Georgian creative discourses.