“Us them”: trends in the development of Russian and Belarusian dramaturgy
of the last third of the XX ― beginning of the XXI century
The article focuses on the features of the dramatic process in Belarus and Russia, studied in a comparative aspect of the Soviet (1970s-1980s) and post-Soviet (1990s 2010s) periods. Our goal is to identify common and different in the dramaturgical systems of related literatures through the prism of thekey topos of the artistic structure of the works of Russian and Belarusian authors hero, conflict, chronotope. Methods of comparative studies (comparative analysis of the literary process), as well as historical and literary methods are used to implement the tasks set. The material includes the works of more than 200 Belarusian and Russian playwrights. Russian literature (A. Vampilov, L. Petrushevskaya, N. Kolyada) and Belarusian literature (A. Makayonok, E. Popova, A. Dudarev), separate directions (new wave of Russian dramaturgy of the 1970s-1980s), stages of dramaturgical life (new drama of the 1990s-2010s), aesthetically controversial development intentions (dramaturgical practice of netuteyshy in Belarusian post-Soviet dramaturgy) are given special attention. The scientific novelty of the research is predetermined by the fact that for the first time in literary studies, a comparative analysis of the dynamics of the dramatic process in Belarus and Russia has been undertaken for such a long time the last four decades.