Profession – a journalist, calling – an artist: genre dynamics on the border of journalism and artistic prose about war
Abstract
The processes of interaction in the genres of the documentary and fiction, which is created using journalistic strategies, as well as professional journalists are determined. Examples are given from resonant and famous prose in the genres of modernised chronicle, belletrised memoirs, autobiographical prose following the traces of large-scale historical events, «tape» prose in the genre of voices.
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