Stylistic features of Otar Chkheidze's prose (Based on the "Trilogy")

• Eka Khanishvili

The present text analyzes the functional significance of three main stylistic devices in Otar Chkheidze’s prose—repetition, reminiscence, and irony. The aim of the study is to examine how these devices shape Chkheidze’s artistic language, reveal the author’s spiritual and intellectual stance, and influence the reader’s emotional and cognitive response. Methodologically, the analysis is based on stylistic, discursive, and intertextual examination of the text. In Chkheidze’s language, repetition is not merely a rhythmic structure—it serves to create clear emphasis, intensify mood, and highlight ideas. It often acquires a poetic dimension and, by breaking away from traditional lexical forms, produces an individual rhythm. Reminiscence—whether conscious or unconscious citation from other texts—is considered in Chkheidze’s stylistics not as a decorative element but as a value-laden accent. Through it, the author appeals to cultural memory and actualizes historical, religious, and folkloric layers. Irony appears as a self-reflective dimension of the text. It neutralizes excessive pathos, exposes weaknesses in traditional thinking, and shapes a detached, intellectual, often sarcastic authorial voice. As a result, it is evident that these three stylistic devices in Otar Chkheidze’s prose are not only means of artistic form but also deeply rooted internal structures of the text, simultaneously serving aesthetic, semantic, and value functions.

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