Title of the dissertation: Literary heritage of Goderdzi Chokheli

The considered problem is relevant due to the fact that the scope of valuable research focused on Goderdzi Chokheli is quite small. However, discussing his multifaceted work and presenting it to the readers is both an enviable task and a challenge for the researchers of Georgian literature. We believe that the writer and filmmaker, despite being loved by the people, is not properly understood and appreciated. Out of his mostly deeply philosophical literary heritage, the Georgian society is mostly familiar with its light-hearted, humorous part. However, the writer's works contain more serious, and much more important layers, without considering which we can only claim knowledge of solely its surface. Goderdzi Chokheli brings up to the readership and audience, and addresses issues such as: God's place and role in a desperate society, the theme of the homeland, the problem of human freedom and responsibility, the eternal confrontation between good and evil, traditions and their importance in the self-determination of the nation, human dependence on nature, struggle of an individual to approach oneself, and so on. The author has himself repeated in interviews and essays that you should write about what you know well, what has moved through your soul and has left a mark. Our choice of the research topic was partly due to the fact that we are quite familiar with the writer's native environment, which allows us to see and interpret some issues from the insider’s perspective.