“I reduce the history to a man”: “Zinc boys” by Svetlana Aleksievich

UDC 821.161.1-31

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.1-21.083    

Nichiporov Ilya B.,

Doctor of Philology, Professor of the History of Modern Russian Literature and Contemporary Literary Process Department

Lomonosov Moscow State University

e-mail: il-boris@yandex.ru

The article is devoted to “Zinc boys” by Svetlana Aleksievich as a phenomenon of documentary fiction. The problems of the work, the image of the narrator, and the organization of the character world are considered. We are talking about the positions of the “witnesses” of history, their views on the war in Afghanistan and the present of the 1980s, as well as the reception of this text by the public consciousness of the 90s.

Keywords: Svetlana Alexievich, documentary prose, war theme, image of the author.

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