Satire Written in Internal Emigration: (Levan Bolkvadze's „The Story of a Boy Who Found Himself in a Fairy Tale“)

Abstract

Levan Bolkvadze authored a single work, „The Story of a Boy Who Found Himself in a Fairy Tale“, a political pamphlet against the Soviet totalitarian regime. The circumstances surrounding its composition and publication are particularly fascinating, demonstrating that time remains the most objective evaluator of literary processes. Through temporal perspective, characters emerge in sharp relief. Time serves as the primary symbolic-allegorical character, depicted as captured and bound. The work presents the "celebra­tions" of ignorance in King Chigidi's state, paradoxical figures born from fear, idyllic traps set by officials for citizens, and courses for studying goodness and „shame-honor restoration“.