ОСОБЕННОСТИ ФОРМЫ И СТИЛЯ БЕЛОРУССКОЙ ПОВЕСТВОВАТЕЛЬНОЙ ИСТОРИИ 20–30-Х ГГ. ХХ В.

Abstract

The paper deals with the Belarusian narrative short story of the 20–30s of the 20th century based on the works by Symon Baranavykh, Andrei Mryi, Lukash Kaliuga. It is shown that the mentioned period is marked by radical changes in the content and form components of the national literature. The socio-political and cultural situation of that time offers writers a wide range of new themes and plots. The writers thereby quite often use traditional genres and genre modifications. As a result, new genre forms with specific form-building and style-forming features appear. The analysis of these forms is carried out using the categorical apparatus of narratology (narrative theory). The paper studies such a genre modification of a short story as a “narrative short story” as well as its varieties, for example, a tale, which are common in Belarusian literature. The tale is a productive form of the named genre modification; it is particularly popular during the period of social upheavals, as evidenced by Russian and Belarusian literature examples. It is noted that the narrator, often non-personalized, is the form-building center of the narrative short story; the features of his presence in the text are described and the importance of the recipient for understanding the text is determined. It is also indicated that the main style-forming component of the narrative short history of the above period is the interference between the texts of narrators and characters.