THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ERNEST HEMIGWAY’S DIALOGUE AND GEORGIAN SHORT FICTION OF II PART OF XX CENTURY

Abstract

It is beyond doubt that Ernest Hemingway's writing style has had an unprecedented influence on his contemporaries, as well as the generations that followed. It is also noteworthy that this influence is not at all limited to English-language authors. This or that characteristic feature of Hemingway's work was to some extent reflected in the works of various Georgian prose writers of the 2nd half of the 20th century. The purpose of this work is to discuss one of the key aspects of Ernest Hemingway's writing technique (namely, the Hemingwayan dialogue) in relation to the Georgian short fiction of the 2nd half of the 20th century, to analyze the key features of Hemingway's dialogues, as well as the possible influence of the Hemingway's method of constructing dialogue in the short stories of a number of Georgian writers belonging to the period in question. Among the Georgian authors to be studied within the scope of the research are: Guram Rcheulishvili, Revaz Inanishvili, Archil Sulakauri and Tamaz Bibiluri. In my opinion, these are the authors whose short fiction is most characterized by interesting interpretations of various aspects of Hemingway's method of constructing dialogues.

Keywords: dialogue, short fiction, Hemingway, Georgian literature.