A BOOK – “SMOKE SYNDROME” BY TEMUR CHKUASELI

Abstract

Temur Chkuaseli’s book- “Smoke Syndrome” is a very interesting material to find out the author's worldview and aesthetic point of view. The book consists of several essays of different genre. However, I think that the book serves the author's certain thoughts. It is the love of Motherland and its care. Moral upbringing of each Georgian and self upbringing are the ways which unites essays under one heading. It is added by the main Biblical- Evangelical motive of falling sins. The book is read in a very interesting way. Readers become accomplice of the artistic process from the very beginning. Lines follow after lines in an enviable Georgian with large inner feelings. Amazing artistic characters are created, certainty and dream are mixed. Themes of self-awareness, feeling sins, being a human and artistic paradigmatic reflection give amazing cooler to the narration. It is added with strong feelings towards the Motherland (a leading motive of Temur Chkuaseli’s work) and amazing humor - not only in literary Georgian, but in Gurian dialect; Tears and smiles, cries and laughter, sorrow and joy, depth of thought and light, and most impor-tantly of esthetic thinking –attract the readers’ attention. The book ,,Smoke Syndrome" is the unity of efficiency and emotionality, objectivity and subjectivity, conscious and subconscious, general and individuality. The speech style of the author and the characters, the Biblical and Evangelical stream, the motive of self-awareness and repentance give an eternal life to this great work.