Camp purgatories heroes Yankee Bryl and Alexei Karpyuk (novel "The birds and the nest", the story "Pushcha Odyssey") Cover Image

Лагерныя хаджэнні па пакутах герояў Янкі Брыля і Аляксея Карпюка (раман “Птушкі і гнёзды”, аповесць “Пушчанская адысея”)
Camp purgatories heroes Yankee Bryl and Alexei Karpyuk (novel "The birds and the nest", the story "Pushcha Odyssey")

Author(s): Anna Sakovič
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: World War II; concentration camp; war-prison reality; physical and moral sufferings; an escape; autobiographic writing; stylistic layer;

Summary/Abstract: In the article an analysis of main characters’ life (Ales’ Runyevich from Yanka Bril’s “Ptushki i gnyozdi” and Alosha Kuchinskiy from Alyeksyey Karpyok’s “Pushchanskaya odysyeya”) was carried out. Special attention was focused on the period when they were the prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. Inhuman conditions of life in concentration camps, prisoners’ hard work and atrocities of people who superintended them were described. The characters’ attitudes towards the war-prison reality were discussed. They did not bear up against misfortune, they searched for salvation and perseverance in memories about “family nest” and in the will to fight. These are the features of Ales’ Runyevich and Alosha Kuchinskiy.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 143-157
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Belarusian