La prosa documentale di Svetlana Aleksievič. Tra reportage e memoir collettivo

Iryna Shylnikova

doi:10.31261/FLPI.2023.06.04

Published: 2023-04-20

No. 2(6) (2023)

Svetlana Alexievich’s Documentary Prose: Between the Reportage and the Collective Memoir

Iryna Shylnikova

Section: Articles and Studies

https://doi.org/10.31261/FLPI.2023.06.04

Abstract

This essay offers an analysis of the work of Svetlana Alexievich as the most complete expression of documentary prose, defined as a hybrid narrative and combining the genres of the reportage and the collective memoir. This narrative trend attained full development in Soviet literature during the 1970s and is characterized by a transfer from the author to direct witnesses of the narrated events. While Iryna Shylnikova traces the origins of this trend, a diachronic study of documentary prose allows her to reconstruct
Svetlana Alexievich’s artistic method. She explains, at the same time, how a recourse to living testimonies on real facts can be transformed into an aesthetic phenomenon. In particular, Shylnikova focuses on Second-hand Time in an attempt to establish the core points of the author’s poetics.

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Svetlana Alexievich , reportage , documentary prose , collective memoir

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Shylnikova, I. (2023). Svetlana Alexievich’s Documentary Prose: Between the Reportage and the Collective Memoir. Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica, (2(6), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.31261/FLPI.2023.06.04

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No. 2(6) (2023)
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