Tvaradze Revaz

Tvaradze Revaz (15. VIII. 1928, village of Ukhuti, present-day Vani Municipality – 23. VII. 2006, Tbilisi), literary critic, writer, and translator. Doctor of Philological Sciences (1988), Professor (1992). He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Tbilisi State University in 1952.

Tvaradze began his scientific and literary career in 1952. He published over 150 articles, number of books, and translations. He was one of the compilers of the thirty-volume editions of Georgian Prose and Georgian Writing.

Under Tvaradze’s initiative, and based on his own conceptual framework, a new subject, “Religion and Culture,” was introduced into Georgian schools in 1994. He was the author of five textbooks for this subject (for the third through seventh grades), as well as its educational curricula.

Tvaradze’s scientific activity primarily encompassed historical issues of Georgian literature and religious-philosophical ideas. In this regard, his notable studies include: The Areopagite and Rustaveli (1971), Galaktion (1972), The Wisdom of Balahvar (1973), Fifteen Centuries of Wholeness (1985), The Village and the Beyond (1983), The Platonic Doctrine of Love (1985), The Areopagitic Doctrine of Love (1986), The Areopagitic Doctrine of Love and Georgian Literature (1987), and The Problem of the Wholeness of the Universe and Areopagitica (1988).

Among Tvaradze’s translations, William Faulkner’s novels The Hamlet (translated as Sopeli, 1972) and The Town (translated as Kalaki, 1975) are particularly significant.

Literary works: ლიტერატურული წერილები, თბ., 1962; წიგნი და მკითხველი, თბ., 1971; წერილები, ლეგენდა გალაკტიონის ცხოვრებისა, თბ., 1978; გადასახედი, თბ., 1997; ლეგენდა გალაკტიონის ცხოვრებისა, თბ., 2001; „ცისკრის" პირველი დღეები. მოგონებათა წიგნი, თბ., 2008.

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