Emocjonalny obraz katastrofy w Czarnobylu (na materiale Czarnobylskiej modlitwy Swietłany Aleksijewicz)
Emotional picture of catastrophy in Chernobyl (based on Chernobyl prayer by Svetlana Alexievich)

Summary/Abstract: Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich is both a highly emotive and emotion-generatingtext. The Chernobyl disaster depicted in this work is permeated with emotionality.The dominant emotion is fear connected with an ever present motif of death, which affectshuman beings, the world of nature as well as all products of the human hand. Positiveemotions are evoked in the context of the Chernobyl disaster serving the role of a unitingfactor for the Belarusian people, or when the disaster is treated as a source of “new andpowerful impressions”.

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