THE NOVEL IN THE RUSSIAN AND BELARUSIAN PROSE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY: THE EXPERIENCE OF COMPARATIVE STUDY
The article reveals the typological features of the genre-style modification of the novel in Russian and Belarusian prose in the second half of the twentieth century. The evolution of the novel reflects the main vectors in the development of the literary process of the studied period and demonstrates its general patterns and national specifics. The genre of the novel has cognitive and communicative mobility while maintaining the canonical structure. The study of the genre modification of the novel made it possible to trace the continuity of the literary tradition as well as the emergence and formation of new aesthetic methods and techniques based on the accumulated artistic experience. The relevance of this research is determined by the scale of the empirical material and its representative capabilities. The works of prosaists of the second half of the twentieth century belonging to one generation but assimilating elements of different artistic paradigms (normative aesthetics, socio-psychological realism, modernism and postmodernism) are taken for the analysis. The comparative perspective of the study led to the conclusion about the interrelations of closely related literatures, their general and specific features in the reflection of the world and man.