Music as a Character in Rezo Sherozia’s novel „The Room of Solitude“

Abstract

Professor Revaz Sherozia, in addition to being a linguist, scholar, and educator, also wrote literary works — poems and short stories — under the pseudonym Juma Jumiteli. He received formal music education, having graduated from the Second Music School named after Z. Paliashvili in 1969, and composed numerous melodies.
The article examines R. Sherozia’s short story In the Room of Solitude, focusing on the author’s perspective on music. Literary history offers examples where abstract phenomena are transformed into characters. The paper analyzes how music in this story is personified, animated, and spiritualized — what role it plays in revealing the psychological state of the characters, and whether it influences the development of the plot.

The study employs literary interpretation and hermeneutic analysis, including an overview of the poetic and cultural structures of the text, observations on the characters, and the author’s expressive devices.