PROBLEM OF THE TYPICALNESS OF LITERARY CHARACTERS IN GIORGI TSERETELI’S THOUGHTS

Abstract

The article concerns explaining the essence of the typical nature of literary characters in Georgian literature of II half of XIX century and its problem in literary studies. It is shown that very often Georgian writers of this period criticized their own works as well as works of other writers. Writers of the sixties started discussing the problems of a type and typical genesis from the very beginning of their literary arena. Ilia Chavchavadze and his followers completely shared Hegel’s, Chernishevski’s, Belinski’s considerations about the mentioned issue and considering the Georgian reality even enriched it. The article focuses of Ilia Chavchavadze’s, Akaki Tsereteli’s, Niko Nikoladze’s, Giorgi Tsereteli’s and Vazha- Pshavela’s considerations and discussions on the genesis of type and typicalness. It is noteworthy that Vazha-Pshavela evaluates type and typicalness in an absolutely different way. According to the writer, it is an author’s duty to create types and ideal characters as if literature expresses the country’s needs, types created by it will be tendentious. It is vividly seen in the article that Giorgi Tsereteli understood the problem of type and typicalness in a different way than Ilia Chavchavadze, Akaki Tsereteli and Vazha-Pshavela; though, he was not able to neglect the principles of the writers of the sixties on the mentined literary problems in his literary work. Giorgi Tsereteli’s theoretical viewpoints stayed separately not only from the current literary processes, but also from the writer’s literary practice.