A national model of mnemonic narrative: Kati Dadeshkeliani's Memoirs "Princess in Uniform"
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Memoir literature, Mnemonic narrative, Georgian Rrince's wife in the First World WarAbstract
Literary experts consider memoirs as a subvariety of documentary narrative genre, in which the stories of the past are narrated and the author himself is a participant or eyewitness of these stories (recently, such works are also considered as non-fiction literature). Unlike fictional literature, memoirs, to some extent, have a cognitive function, which is determined by the author’s preferences – whether he/she wants to describe personal, autobiographical occasions or narrate matters of public importance. Kati Dadeshkeliani (1890-1977) was a Georgian emigrant, representative of the ruling family of Svaneti, participant of the First World War, knight of the two crosses of St. George. With regards to her memoirs – "A Princess in Uniform" – it can be said that the ratio is maintained; the author, on the one hand, tells us about the important stages of her life and, on the other hand, she reminisces the past (the author collected her notes at the age of 44 and compiled them into one book) and, based on a certain conceptual vision, she gives us an analysis of the events that happened in a considerable period of time.
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