The Anagenesis of Myth in the Modern Novel

The new century has brought about unique changes in the previously existing literary trends and genres. Postmodernism has “dominated” the literary trend for a long time, although it has almost exhausted its capabilities. From the “death” to transformation of the traditional novel by the use of media tools in the plot of the text, through the intensification and alienation of a person’s “ego” by deep psychology, the reflection and presentation of global or local cataclysms in the XXI century, the writer, creator, and even the reader himself have reconnected with “bored themes” and returned to a kind of “revival” or “anagenesis” with ancient, Hellenistic, medieval, or oriental plots, with the use of fairy tales and fantasy, which also affected the novel in terms of genre. This explains the striving for a "new novel" in world literature (mainly English, German, and American literature), which some call "retelling," "mythological novel," or "fantasy," and which, for the most part, involves presenting in a new form the "thoughts and reflections" of individual passages from Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey," well-known characters-people from mythology, or "characters-gods."

This paper deals with a general hypothetical overview of this process, which was published in the form of translations by the Georgian publishing house “Palitra L” and attracted the attention of readers, despite the widely known news about Homer’s poems. It was expressed in the presentation of “the old in a new skin”. The questions raised concern the spontaneous attempt to spread this type of novels, their definition, perhaps a new direction, and the study of the reasons for their popularity based on a general overview of the works of the authors represented by two projects of this publishing house. The above-mentioned issue is hypothetical and aims to attract the attention of literary critics in order to explain this phenomenon, or rather random facts, against the background of the emergence of the novel, perhaps a “new direction” in the new, 21st century.