FRANCISZEK ALACHNOWCZ’S OEUVRE AS A TESTIMONY OF THE EPOCH Cover Image

POWIEŚĆ DOKUMENTALNA FRANCISZKA ALACHNOWICZA „7 LAT W SZPONACH GPU”: GENEZA UTWORU, CZTERY WERSJE
FRANCISZEK ALACHNOWCZ’S OEUVRE AS A TESTIMONY OF THE EPOCH

Author(s): Andrzej Moskwin
Subject(s): Belarussian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: Belarus; Belarusian literature; documentary prose; Gulag; the Solovetsky Islands; Franciszek Alachnowicz;

Summary/Abstract: “7 Years in the Clutches of the GPU” by Franciszek Alachnowicz is a very important book in Belarusian literature. Using his own experience Alachnowicz showed how the Gulag and the process of humiliating a man functioned. In the article its author demonstrates the way Alachnowicz returned to his text four times and each time he supplemented it by adding new details. The book was published in Polish in 1935 and in 1937, and in Belarusian in 1937 and in 1942.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 47-88
  • Page Count: 42
  • Language: Polish