Georgian sources in the context of European postmornist literature according to Givi margvelashvili’s “Mutsali”

Abstract

Postmodernism created the need for another, free world, reality, where there are no artificial barriers, borders, stereotypes, closed spaces (texts), authoroties, main characters and main roles, where everything is ruled by the human mind, herart and free will. The postmodernist narrative does not recognize any limitations, and this freedom gives it a great opportunity to show and express what it has to say  openly, undisguised. The world is understood as a text, an endless game of signs, which determines the relationship between the author, the readwer and the character. When reading a text, it is considered a normal event for reader to introduce a hero from a completely different work and continue/expand his line with a new interpretation. We are dealing with such a case in the novel of German-speaking Georgian writer and philisipher, Givi Margvelashvili – “Mutsali”, which can be considered  a classic example of European postmodernism. “Mutsali” is a part of European literature from beginning to end. As noted in the criticism, it is characterized by all the main and essential signs of a postmodernist novel, such as: citation, deconstructuveness, intertextality, double coding, interculturality, gragmantation, framing principle, irony, pastiche and others. “Mutsali” is an “expended and modernized version” of Georgian classical texts, namely Vazha-Pshavela’s a”aloda Ketelauri” and Nikoloz Baratashvili’s “meran”, a kind of postmodernist “contituation/play”, which is most evident in its content and ideology. In the novel, interlingual passages, Georgian semantic units, Georgian traditions, Georgian literary material are originically adpted and combines with the Western discourtse, which once again demonstrares, along  with many other literary tasks and creative value, the merit and contribution Of Givi Margvelashvili in popularizing the Georgian theme, and georgian sources.  In the case os a successful attempt to unify in a common European context.