Праблема адчужэння ў аповесцi Янкi Сiпакова “Кулак”
The problem of alienation in the story “Kulak” by Yanka Sipakov

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the question of alienation, the loss of personal identity that appears in critical periods of history when an individual’s social and psychological ties are disturbed. In the story “Kulak” (1989) Yanka Sipakov explores a typical fate of Belarusian people in the years of Stalin’s collectivization, when the value of human life and interests of an individual were completely ignored, when people were pulled away from their lands and from their usual living conditions. Collectivization, according to the author of the story, released the evil of human nature which is present in family, in relations of leaders to peasants, of young people to the older generation, in the deification of the world, in an approach to an individual in general. The main character’s thoughts are wise and deep. He experiences the tragic alienation of man from his own roots, reflected by the misery of envious and greedy people. The opposition between social and personal, with the social that takes over, inevitably leads to alienation. The trend, according to Y. Sipakov, is very dangerous for the 21st century, as it can provoke an anthropological crisis.

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