Fact and Allegory: Two Poles in The Representation of War (on the Example of “War’s Unwomanly Face” by S. Alexievich and “The Cursed and The Slain” by V. Astafiev)

Abstract

The military actions of the 20th century (Revolutions, the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War, the war in Kosovo, Chechnya, Iraq) left a terrifying mark on the history. The article discusses traditional and innovative forms of recreating the military context in the Russian and Russophone Belarusian military prose on the example of V. Astafiev and S. Alexievich’s works.