ABODE OF «KHTISSHVILI»' (ACCORDING TO THE STORY «KHTISSHVILI» BY GODERDZI CHOKHELI)

Abstract

Goderdzi Chokheli is an outstanding writer of the 20th century, whose works deeply and interestingly reflected the customs characteristic of the life of his native area - Gudamakri. He was a writer, poet, director, and playwright. Goderdzi Chokheli's creative heritage is diverse, as a writer he is distinguished by his writing manner and subject matter, his works are nourished by folk motifs, and he brings heroes from myths and legends, which establishes an original style of writing in Georgian writing of the postmodern era. Goderdzi Chokheli's works widely reflected pagan and Christian beliefs and ideas, the works are imbued with the spirit and aspirations that nourish the author's native corner - Gudamakari.The short story «Khtisshvili», which we are dealing with, contains a mixture of pagan and Christian beliefs and ideas, observation revealed that the author reconciles the two beliefs, ideas, and narrative. The characters created by the writer are often mythological heroes, as well as in the story «Khtisshvili», whose hero is little Zosime. He will live in heaven at the end of the story, like the mythological gods. The corner of lighted candles is a paradigm of the Lord, by the power of whose light Zosimus, clothed in unearthly light, joined the company of heavenly apostles. According to the worldview of Goderdzi Chokheli, the place of the chosen ones is only in heaven. This is how the author portrayed the face of «Khtisshvili» in the story. The mythical perspective, the confusion of the real and the unreal once again presents Goderdzi Chokheli as an outstanding writer and thinker of the twentieth century. A kind of anachronism, the transfer of the past into reality, which is the way of life of the Gudamakrs, skillfully turns into the legacy of the artistic text, thus immortalizing this event.