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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 is devoted to the work of the classic of Belarusian literature Yakub Kolas. His poems are singled out, as well as the poems “New Earth”, “Sim author — the land, without which real existence is impossible, and music as the language of the soul, a way of its self-expression. The writer, as a realist artist, relied on material taken from the Belarusian reality, from the life of relatives and friends who became the prototypes of his literary heroes. The author conducts some comparative analysis of the work of Yakub Kolas and Yanka Kupala, who wrote about eternity, about the inextricable relationship of the past, present and future. Particular attention is paid to the speech of Y. Kolas at the International Congress of Writers in Defense of Culture in Paris in 1935, which took place in a difficult political situation in Europe caused by the strengthening of Nazi Germany.