Abstract
Pandemic reflected in literature, as the litmus and remedy for the humankind.
In the presented report I would like to discuss Vazha Pshavela’s literary prism, in view of pandemic: one of such is the fiction work – Cholera has helped me (Story by Berua), and the other is the publicist letter – Thoughts (Caused by Cholera).
As the method of research of aforementioned literary texts, I have chosen hermeneutics (as the means for understanding and interpreting the text), analysis (which covers analysis of problems raised in the texts) and comparative method (with the aim of comparison with the author’s other texts and world literary classics).
The main ideological axis of the report is the phrase from Vazha Pshavela’s publicist letter: “Maybe we can get rid of this also. Then we will see how the word cholera, as its representative, will be erased, eliminated from the earth”.
Vazha-Pshavela’s literary fiction Cholera has helped me, is a fun, entertaining, humorous story about the cholera pandemic, but having a very deep meaning.