Narration in the early stories by Kuzma Chorny

Authors

  • Iryna Ch. Chasnok The Institute of Journalism of the Belarusian State University, Kal’variiskaya street, 9, 220004, Minsk, Republic of Belarus

Keywords:

Belarusian prose, narrative strategy, narrative technique, narrator, abstract author, story, internal eventfulness, agitation strategy

Abstract

The article is devoted to analysis of the narrative organization of early works by Kuzma Chorny. Reviewed short stories («On the border (Pictures from the borderline life)», «On Guard», «My duty is small», «We will live», «Iron cry», «Feelings», «Pines say») have clearly two main narrative dominants in Kuzma Chornyi’s prose as the orientation on mental eventfullness and the agitation narrative strategy. On this view, the techniques like journalism, metanarrative (aspiration of characters or narrator to the collective community), uninformative dialogues, creating intrigue through unknown lines and unnamed characters, giving a narrative to descriptions, the orientation on the inner, mental changes in the nature of the character are in frequent use by Kuzma Chorny in these works. Kuzma Chorny included the above narrative techniques in future works (novels «The Sister», «The Earth», «Search for the Future», «The Milky Way», novella «Liuba Luk’ianskaia», etc.).

Author Biography

  • Iryna Ch. Chasnok, The Institute of Journalism of the Belarusian State University, Kal’variiskaya street, 9, 220004, Minsk, Republic of Belarus

    lecturer at the department of literary-art criticism

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Published

2019-02-06

Issue

No. 1 (2017): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology

Section

Literary Research

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Chasnok, I.C. 2019. Narration in the early stories by Kuzma Chorny. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology. 1 (Feb. 2019), 24–29.