Vazha Pshavela's National Spirit

Abstract

    Vazha Favela's genius is primarily manifested in his defense of the interests of his native people, in his powerful original representation of their ethical and aesthetic values.

    Throughout his life, Mgosani, along with his literary work, was engaged in hard physical labor. His respect and love for representatives of his own class, hatred for oppressors, and the carving of the national spirit associated with this fact are obvious. Vazha's literary heritage opens up in many aspects for different readers and eras. The first thing we feel when we are near him is the inexhaustible potential of intellectual energy, a strange force that has fought with a peculiar boldness against the greatest questions of humanity: "What is around me? Who am I? What is life? How is all this created?" To ask these questions and try to answer them within the limits of your own competence, you must be both an artist and a philosopher. So much has been said about Vazha's artistic thinking that we have nothing more to add, let me only add that his work offers us much more than the finished philosophical systems of many thinking societies.

     Researchers of Vazha-Pshavela's poetry do not hide that the first impression they get from Mgosni's artistic world is one caused by a heroic, courageous spirit. "His lyrics are courageous, the heroes of his poems, the mountain landscape... so dramatically moving and so wonderfully combined with literary heroes," says Geronti Kikodze about Vazha. And indeed, perseverance and courage are one of the strongest motifs of Vazha's poetry.