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eBook - Poem of Shota Rustaveli: The Knight in the Tiger SkinFull text of Rustaveli's poem in English (Translation by Marjory Scott Wardrope), with 17th century miniatures by anonym.
The Knight in the Tiger Skin by Shota Rustaveli is recognized as one of the greatest works to have been created by human genius. Eight centuries separate us from the author of this immortal epic, but even today its life-affirming passion, shining humanity and heroic spirit, the ideas of patriotism and internationalism that it embodies and the elevated human feelings and moral ideals it expresses link this great literary monument of the distant past with the spiritual world of all freedom-loving peoples. Rustaveli's epic has become part of the heritage of all mankind. No less than the people for whom it was written, Europeans and Asians, Americans and Africans can gain from this work something more than a romantic, knightly tale brilliantly told in verse. For centuries Rustaveli's work, the product of an unknown world and written in a still unstudied tongue, survived only in the native land of the poet, out of the Caucasus mountains in the gorges of the rivers Chorokhi, Rioni, Kura and Alazani. For world culture the appearance of The Knight in the Tiger Skin was akin to a major archaeological discovery. The Russian public figure, Yevgeny Bolkhovitinov, was the first person of the larger world to take note of this priceless treasure. Writing soon after Georgia joined Russia in 1802, he observed enthusiastically of the poem that "the scenes of action resemble those of Ariosto's poem Orlando Furioso, but the beauty, the originality of the pictures, the naturalness of the ideas and sensations are Ossianic". Bled white by its enemies, Georgia had slumbered for six centuries. Now, through the North, it was returning to the European civilization to which it had been linked for many centuries through the South before the Mongol invasion. The Knight in the Tiger Skin was written on the eve of the fatal catastrophe which befell Georgia in the "golden age" of its history, when this small but powerful feudal country stood at the height of its political, economic and spiritual renaissance. Scarcely had the book appeared than Georgia was for many centuries torn from the outside world, its once famed culture known only to very few. Even in the 19th century, although Rustaveli's epic had been noted and many had tried to bring it, if only in part, to the knowledge of the world. The Knight in the Tiger Skin remained an enigma to the foreign reader.
Also read: A word on Shota Rustaveli by Irakly Abashidze The "Georgian Times" interview on CD edition of Rustaveli's Poem  |
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