Экзістэнцыяльны кампанент беларускай аўтабіяграфічнай прозы (Алесь Адамовіч, “Vixi”; Максім Танк, “Дзённікі”; Сакрат Яновіч, “Не жаль пражытага”)

Abstract

The article deals with the existential component of the modern autobiographical prose in the documentary works “Vixi” by A. Adamovitch, “Diaries” by Maxim Tank, “I am not sorry of the past” by Socrates Yanovitch. Readers and researchers are particularly attracted by the autobiographical prose because of the author’s precise knowledge of events as their witness or participant, his unbiased interest in description of the external life and particularly the internal state, his assertion of personal rightness, evaluations and conclusions. The scale and character of transformation of the internal “self” of such authors as A. Adamovitch, Maxim Tank, S. Yanovitch, their self-realization in the society, forming of their creative position, choice of their life values, overcoming of their internal contradictions display the stable tendency in the modern autobiographical prose towards maximum self-stripping and self-recognition. The documentary prose with its genre and composition variety enables to undertake different forms and levels of the “self” analysis that leads to the complication of the structure of a narration. The main elements of this structure like metatext insertions and intertext display literary preferences of authors, their colleagues, and acquaintances, and create a colorful image of the epoch. These are sooner the basic component of the process of the development of the writers’ personality, than their mode of evaluation of other people. The modern autobiographical prose displays the stable tendency towards the fusion of lyrical and philosophical meditation. Essentially, the author’s work reminds the continuous internal monologue where the unity of subjective and all human is asserted. The author’s particular attention to his “self” does not lead to egocentrism or individualism for as through the own recollections he opens to a reader pages of historical memory, that helps overcoming narrowness and limit of the individual being.