Vol. 17 (2024): Contemporary Issues of Literary Criticism Literatures of Small Countries and Challenges of the Modern Global World
International Socio-literary Processes and Georgian Literature

Activation of Taboo Topics in Jemal Karchkhadze's Creativity

Tinatin Tvaltchrelidze
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Published 2024-12-20

Keywords

  • Cultural narratives,
  • national identity,
  • taboo,
  • totalitarizm

Abstract

In the totalitarian space, the killing of the moral law is highly relevant. Rather than the post-Soviet trauma narrative, Jemal Karchkhadze's work is interesting in the direction of tabooing and de-tabooing moral issues, in order to present epochally correct artistic-aesthetic values (Karchkhadze's journalism, The Tenant, Jupiter's Regret, Antonio and David, etc.) While moral values are taboo, Jemal Karchkhadze made the issue of morality the main problem of his literary works; he wrote: "I am a moralist by nature and nothing can be done about it." Two types of conjuncture of the era spread during this period: “urapatriotic” and international