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    Published : 2023-09-26
    Vol. 71 No. 7 (2023)

    Farewell to Homeland: Aleh Minkin’s Poetry of the Period of Transformation

    Siergiej Kowalow

    https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1717-9070

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh23717.6

    Abstract

    Article in Belarusian

    The article deals with the poetry of Aleh Minkin (born in 1952) of the period of transformation: poems written in 1991-2016. in Vilnius and Moscow, after the departure of the poet from Belarus. In addition to changing the place of residence, Minkin’s work of the late period was also influenced by important historical events: the transformation of Lithuania, and then Belarus into independent states, the first presidential elections in Belarus and the coming to power of Alexander Lukashenko, the fiasco of the Belarusian national revival, strengthening the colonial dependence of Minsk on Moscow, turning Russia and Belarus into totalitarian states. Poems from the collections Pyenaty (2007) and Myanye tut nye bylo… (2018) are analyzed in a biographical and socio-political context. The main direction of the poet’s creative evolution is determined: from neoclassicism and neomythologism of the early collections of Surma (1984) and Raskolinа (1991) to the lyrics of direct experience and metaphysical poetry of the late period.

    Keywords:

    transformation, Belarusian literature, creative evolution, metaphysical poetry, Aleh Minkin



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    Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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