Vol. 15 (2021): XV International Symposium Contemporary Issues of Literary Studies : Literature and Pandemic. Historical and Thematic Experience
Conditions and Goals of Creating Literary Masterpieces During Pandemic

Pandemic and Literature: Literature During the Pandemic

Gia Arganashvili
Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature

Published 2021-12-20

Keywords

  • Pandemic,
  • 19th Century,
  • Literature

Abstract

 

Today, the pandemic is the most topical theme. In the recent past, we have never so clearly felt the tragic consequences of  pandemic and epidemic events.

Our current experience suggests that this non-political and non-literary theme may have a greater impact on our historical past, our literary consciousness than it seems at first glance.

Pandemic and literature – each of them evokes a completely different feeling in a person. Nineteenth-century Georgian literature has preserved many memories on this difficult epidemiological situation, and the epistolary lyrics have enriched numerous specimens of poetry using this topos.