FOR THE TRAVEL GENRE DISCOURSE IN GEORGIAN ARTISTIC TEXTS

Abstract

The specificity of the travel (traveller, travel diary) text led to its assignment to one or another genre of fiction, which was defined as a documentary-epic variety (along with diaries, memoirs, essays, and others). Over the centuries, the mentioned genre was dominated by travel texts of different eras (in the form of travel texts, writings by authors who have been abroad or in different parts of Georgia), which mainly came down to us in manuscript form, and their publication became possible only in the 19th-20th centuries. The researchers Avtandil Nikolaishvili, Darejan Menabde worked on the mentioned issues, and the works of the mentioned genre are extensively reviewed in their works, while the records of the 19th century were studied by different researchers independently or together with other works. Our article mainly deals with travel texts of the 21st century with the aim of highlighting their specific features in the new era. From this point of view, the three travel books of the writer, naturalist Archil Kikodze ("Norway Diary", "Mexico Diary", "India Diary") are particularly important.

Keywords: Travel text, Documentary-epic genre, Archil Kikodze.