Malaria as an Existential Crisis

Abstract

Demna Shengelaia’s novel„Sanavardo“ presents malaria as the sick soul of the human being, the existential crisis. The metaphysical was gradually increasingly expelled from the ontological space of human existence. The novel shows doubts about the sacred, which leads to the doubling of a person, alienation, disbelief, fear of the future. The passages performed with the original technique of narration, poetic prose, modernist aesthetics deeply depict the shattering of human illusions. The novel depicts how malaria spreads to the spiritual-material environment. Here are landscapes in „reverse“, that mirror the human spiritual world. The characters seek refuge from malaria in imagined dimension.