WAYS OF REALIZING POSTMODERNIST PRINCIPLES IN THE DRAMATURGY AND POETRY OF VIKTOR KORKIYA

Abstract

The work of Viktor Korkiya, a representative of contemporary Russian literature of Georgian origin, constitutes one of the distinctive and intriguing pages of modern literary process. His poetry and plays clearly reveal the style of an experimental creator, stemming from the postmodernist nature of his artistic vision. Korkiya’s poetic and dramatic texts are based on a unified aesthetic principle that reflects an organic synthesis of the universal features of postmodern poetics and the writer’s individual techniques. Despite generic differences and the diversity of expressive means, a clear stylistic integrity emerges in Korkiya’s oeuvre.

The author skillfully employs the fundamental postmodernist principles (intertextuality, carnivalesque, irony, metatextuality) in shaping his own artistic style, which turns his texts into an experimental space where genres, styles, and various literary strategies intersect and intermingle, opening up possibilities for new artistic perspectives. Korkiya’s aesthetic strategy is distinguished both by a conscious application of general features characteristic of postmodernist literature and by the originality of his individual interpretation.

In the Georgian academic sphere, Korkiya’s works are little known or almost entirely unfamiliar. Moreover, although his literary texts, particularly his dramatic works, enjoy considerable popularity within the Russian cultural space, his oeuvre has not yet received due scholarly attention even in Russian literary studies. This fact, therefore, lends additional significance to the present research.

Keywords:  Viktor Korkiya, dramaturgy, poetry, postmodernism, intertextuality, allusion, deconstruction.