მაგიურ-რეალისტური მოტივები და მისტიკური რიტუალები თანამედროვე ქართულ და ლათინურამერიკულ რომანში (ოთარ ჭილაძის „გზაზე ერთი კაცი მიდიოდა“ და მარიო ვარგას ლიოსას „ლიტუმა ანდებში“)

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Typological analogies are often revealed in fiction texts that are created in different cultural-geographic areas. This fact can be accounted for not only by similar fundamental changes in political and economic-cultural spheres, but by many other reasons as well. Such analogies are particularly frequently revealed through the usage of the method of magical realism. The present research analyzes such analogies. For this purpose, it compares a novel by Peruvian Nobel Prize Winner, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lituma en los Andes (Death in the Andes) (1993), with the novel by a renowned Georgian writer Otar Chiladze, A Man Was Going Down the Road (1973).
These two novels have a noteworthy common passage, i. e. semi-real and semi-mystical location, dining-room: in Otar Chiladze’s novel it is an underground cellar of Bakha (Bacchus), in Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel it is a village dining-hall of Dionysius. Bakha / Bacchus and Dionysius are the prototypes of Ancient Greek god of wine, Dyonisus. However, they reveal a significant difference: Bakha’s (Bacchus’) tavern is an aesthetic relaxing place bearing mythical symbols. As for the dining hall of Dionysius, it is a place of worldly passions and drunkenness, deprived of any sacred features.
One more noteworthy identical detail is the cult of the Moon. In the novel A Man Was Going Down the Road, the High Priestess of the Moon is a woman, the sister of King Ayet, Kamar, who appoints her niece, Medea, as her successor. In the novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, the wife of Dionysius, Donna Adrianna (Ariadne), tells the detective Lituma about the worshipping ritual of the cult of the Moon. And she believes that through this ritual of sacrifice, the ancient dwellers of the Andes attained peaceful and happy life.
The research is based on semiotic, hermeneutic and comparative me-thods of analysis. Certain function-bearing signs, symbols, codes and struc-tures in fiction have been decoded and interpreted. In addition, comparative analysis has revealed typological nature of the mentioned analogies in the discussed novels.