ИСТОРИЈА, НЕДОВРШЕНА ПРИЧА ("ЧЕРНОБИЉСКА МОЛИТВА" СВЕТЛАНЕ АЛЕКСИЈЕВИЧ)
HISTORY, UNFINISHED STORY ("CHERNOBYL PRAYER" BY SVETLANA ALEKSEEVICH)

Summary/Abstract: The novel "Chernobyl Prayer" by Belarussian Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich offers a specific view of history as an unfinished story, ie. history that has a stake in the present, in fact that is realized in the present. One event, which happened about thirty years ago, has remained in the past only as an event, in every other sense, the consequences of that event are still present. The people, the witnesses of history and the witnesses for history, who in the novel by this author talk about Chernobyl, which draws a mosaic of stories that show that history is not completed, but that waits for them sometime in the future. Which is also the subtitle of this novel: “The Chronicle of the Future.” Knowing the history and the truth through the testimony of an ordinary peasant is the brilliant narrative process of Svetlana Aleksievich. Dealing with testimonies means confronting history, and official history alone in touch with human history makes history unfinished. Svetlana Aleksievich’s opinion is that the truth should be presented as it is, and that the witnesses should be let to speak about it - it all belongs to a new, different type of revisionism of history, which of course, in this case, does not mean anything negative, on the contrary, in that way history rebuilds itself internally. The aim of this article is to point out the specific effect of history on the future, as well as to point out the literary and aesthetic value of this work and its author.

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