Abstract

The paper deals with semantic and structural features of texts of autobiographical nature on the example of works of Belarusian authors Alena Vasilevich and Ivan Navumenka. It is stated that the mentioned pieces of work, entering the context of documentary literature, have long-standing historical and literary traditions, recreate the time period and the personality in it. The works by Vasilevich and Navumenka have common determining features: in terms of the content, the saturation with semantic elements with the meaning “memory”, “time”, “path of life”; attention to certain periods of a child’s life; in terms of form – variations in the presentation of the form of the narrator’s person; the use of various forms of time with a predominance of the present; lyricism and subjectivity of the narration. However, each of the texts has its own original features, which is explained by the peculiarities of the authors’ style, as well as the time when the works were written.

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