Conditions and Goals of Creating Literary Masterpieces During Pandemic
Abstract
Georgian literature has one unusual feature – it reserves the right of artistic silence in relation to the fatal disease.
Edgar Allan Poe’s “Red Mask of Death” is just such a fierce pandemic illustration, but with a very mystical character.
It evokes a shocking feeling of excruciating emotion – the “red death march to the country”, from which any attempt to divert itself is in vain.
The “horror chain” is created with a virtual gradation of colors, where the symbolic collision of different, irrelevant tones in the “pandemic labyrinth” will lock the reader and find him in the face of the “red death”.