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Lyubov N. Turbina
Lubov N. Turbina, PhD in Biology, Senior Researcher, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
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Abstract:
The article provides an overview of Belarusian autobiographical prose at the turn of the 20th–21st centuries. in terms of genres and forms variety presented in it. The features of the presence of the author’s consciousness in a literary text are shown. Also identified and characterized are such genres as memoirs, diaries, autobiography, epistolary. Attention is drawn to the autobiographical prose of Yanka Bryl (the book “I write as I live”), Ales Adamovich (the story “VIXI”), the diary of Boris Mikulich, “Confession” by Sergei Grakhovsky, “Confession” by Larisa Genyush. The originality of these literary materials, in which the national principle is strongly reflected, is noted. A common feature of writers is the desire to convey the dynamics of the historical process, the course of events that they witnessed.