The topic of “WW2 rear” childhood in Altai literature of the second half of the 20th century (on the example of the works of Lazar’ Kokyshev, Boris Ukachin, Dibash Kainchin, etc.)

Abstract

The article is based on the works of Altai writers of the second half of the XX century. (Lazar’ Kokyshev, Boris Ukachin, Shatra Shatinov, Dibash Kainchin) The author made an attempt to investigate the theme of memory and the theme of wartime childhood. The work examines the spiritual values of the generation of poets and prose writers who began their career in the 1960s ‟thaw” years. The author's field of vision includes works united by the image of a wartime childhood in the distant rear, the article attempts to fit the material under study into the context of the main trends in the Altai literary process of the indicated period. Attention is paid to autobiography and retrospective point of view, motifs of life and death, hunger and cold. In the works of some writers, a combination of artistic and journalistic principles is noted, the illumination of harsh reality through the eyes of adolescents.