Social Predictions or Statement of Facts? (Belarusian Prose in the 1920s and 1930s) Cover Image

Сацыяльныя прадказанні ці канстатацыя фактау рэчаіснасці? (Беларуская проза 20—30-х гадоу)
Social Predictions or Statement of Facts? (Belarusian Prose in the 1920s and 1930s)

Author(s): Aleś Makarewicz
Subject(s): Belarussian Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: Belarusian literature; post-revolutionary period; contradictory reality; writer’s social status; pathos; equivocality; praises; disapproval; hero; anti-hero;

Summary/Abstract: On the basis of the observations concerning literary factuality the article characterizes the ways post-revolutionary events and public leaders’ aspirations are transformed into artistic world of the literary work to create context which has either disapproving pathos (“Two Souls” by M. Goretsky, “Notes by Samson Samosui” by A. Mriy, “Neither Guest nor Host” by L. Kalyuga) or the equivocality: praise and disapproval, admission and rejection of facts, notions, heroes and anti-heroes of the prototypic reality (“Vilenskiye Kommunards” by M. Goretsky, “Pathways” by M. Zaretsky, “Boundaries”, “New Way” by S. Baranovyh).

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 77-108
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: Belarusian