Vol. 13 No. 1 (2019): XIII International Symposium Contemporary Issues of Literary Studies : Political Events of 1980-1990s and Literary Discourse
Literary Text as Prophecies

Publicistic Discourse in the „Intellectual Mist“

Ketevan Elashvili
Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature

Published 2019-12-20

Keywords

  • Jemal Karchkhadze,
  • Publicistic Discourse,
  • Monologue

Abstract

Jemal Karchkhadze found the most exact name for the profanation of national soul – „Intellectual Mist“. The intensity of this „mist“ was heterogeneous during seventy years, though, unfortunately, it reached the Georgian literature of 80-90 years, where impressive squad of yesterday’s „lead social realists“ with false pathos urgently fit in the robe of „caring about nation“.

That is why the publicistic works of Jemal Karchkhadze reminds Georgian society the supremacy of freedom and tries to scatter the mist of „false pathos“ spoken out loud in the name of freedom. The chrestomathic illustration of this is – „Monologue from Dialogue“ (1988).