Lieutenant prose
Illustration — Photograph of Vasil Bykov in 1944 Lieutenant prose is the body of Russian military fiction penned by former junior officers of the Red Army who drew on their personal experiences during World War II. In "lieutenant prose" protagonists were often (though not always) the junior officers. The war is shown without the semi-official pathos and smoothing of sharp points. "Lieutenant prose" emphasizes not the scale of military actions, panoramic battles with many nameless faces and figures of military leaders, but places individual junior officers in the foreground, often depicting their great courage in extreme situations.
Lieutenant prose
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Illustration — Photograph of Vasil Bykov in 1944 Lieutenant prose is the body of Russian military fiction penned by former junior officers of the Red Army who drew on their personal experiences during World War II. In "lieutenant prose" protagonists were often (though not always) the junior officers. The war is shown without the semi-official pathos and smoothing of sharp points. "Lieutenant prose" emphasizes not the scale of military actions, panoramic battles with many nameless faces and figures of military leaders, but places individual junior officers in the foreground, often depicting their great courage in extreme situations.
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The main representatives of the "lieutenant prose" include Viktor Nekrasov, Grigory Baklanov, Yuri Bondarev, Vasil Bykov, Konstantin Vorobyov, Vyacheslav Kondratyev, Viktor Kurochkin, Boris Vasilyev.
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- 1.vgl. den Abschnitt: „Die ‚Leutnant-Prosa‘ - ein schwacher Abglanz...“ in Jurij Archipow: Literarische Früchte der Perestrojka, S. 695 f.
- 2.Шавалеева В. Д. Произведения Ахияра Хакимова о войне в контексте «лейтенантской прозы» // Диссертация на соискание ученой степени кандидата филологических наук. Уфа: Башкирский государственный педагогический университет им. М. Акмуллы, 2012.
- 3.Maya M. Polekhina: Conceptualization of the Fear of Non-Beingin the Book About War “My Lieutenant” by Daniil Granin (on Actualization of Universal Binary Oppositions) (S. 1182: „not the scale of military actions, panoramic battles with many nameless faces and figures of military leaders were in the first place“)
- 4.Jurij Archipow, S. 695
- 5.kremlin.ru: 75 лет Великой Победы: общая ответственность перед историей и будущим / 75 Jahre des Großen Sieges: Gemeinsame Verantwortung vor der Geschichte und der Zukunft
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