Канстанцыя Буйло: шлях да мастацкай незалежнасцi

The article discusses the life and creative path of Constance Bouylo under the influence of its social mythologization. The role of the poetry collection “Mound Flower” and the poem “I love” in the creative biography of the author has been determined. It tells about the poetess’s friendship with Yanka Kupala, Vladislava Frantsevna Lutsevich, Nina Taras. The influence of the biography on the changes of the artistic paradigm, the creative method, the picture of the world and, in general, the art world of Constance Buylo have been analyzed. The author of the article presents the processes of socialization, ideologization, mythologization, schematization in the writing of poetry.

Час i чалавек у кантэксце аўтарскай тыпiзацыi героя (на матэрыяле беларускай прозы першай трэцi ХХ стагоддзя)

In the article social and artistic phenomena of time and man depicted in interliterary context in the prose of K. Chorny, K. Krapiva, Z. Byaduli and M. Zaretsky are discussed. The analysis includes the uniqueness of the authors’ vision of reality, the characters’ diversity and dynamics, the peculiarities of artistic typification, universal human features and national diversity of the concept of man. Special attention is paid to the peculiarities of personality self-identification in the critical period as well as to the principles and methods of artistic depiction of a character in the context of the era. The article examines the key existential principles and humanistic dominants embodied by Belarusian writers in their artistic concept of personality in the era of wars and revolutions.

Ценные предметы в белорусских народных песнях с родины Адама Мицкевича

The article provides a description and an analysis of the literary context of valuable items in the well-known lyrics of national folk songs of the Belarusian Ponemania. A romantic poet Adam Mitskevich (1798–1855) was born in the land of Ponemania, not far from the town of Novogrudok and Lake Svityaz. In his poems, he borrowed a lot from local folklore – fairy tales, legends, and songs. The article aims to characterize the valuable items described in Belarusian folk songs, recorded in the homeland of Adam Mitskevich, from the perspective of the history of art and antiques.

Жабракi ў пахавальных i памiнальных абрадах беларусаў Падзвiння (па матэрыялах ХIХ – пачатку ХХI стагоддзя)

On the basis of folklore and ethnographic material of the 19th – early 21st century the symbolic status and ritual functions of beggars in funeral and memorial rites of Belarusian Dvina region are discussed. The beggars represent a peculiar social group, the specificity of which is most expressively manifested in the ritual forms of behavior, including the funeral and memorial rites of the dead. The reasons of their inclusion into the ritual sphere (through the analysis of such characteristics as poverty, physical deviations, blindness, special appearance, possession of secret knowledge, the nature of their “activity”, isolated lifestyle) are presented. The article deals with the status and ritual functions of beggars in the funeral rites and rites of the memorial cycle (within a year from the date of death and calendar holidays). New field material is involved in the study, part of which is fixed by the author. The results of the research will be useful in the study of worldviews and beliefs.

Спроба паразумецца: перакладчыцкая канцэпцыя i чытацкая рэцэпцыя ў практычным узаемадзеяннi

The article reveals the actual problem of understanding and reception of the translation of a literary work in the context of Belarusian-Russian bilingualism with the dominant use of the Russian language. Although the translation in a bilingual context often helps readers to understand better, it can also hinder the reception when bilingual readers comparing both texts are not satisfied with translation. It is not possible to establish general limitations on account of the variability of both understanding and subsequent creation of the work which is by nature subjective and ambiguous. Not only should translators have a thorough knowledge of the language of the original work but they also are expected to know social-cultural conditions of the society for whom they translate.

Паэма Янкi Купалы “Сон на кургане”: асаблiвасцi мастацкага свету

In the poem “Son na kurganye” by Yanka Kupala the author uses symbolic form and content (dream, night dream) in order to present the existence of man from the perspective of his entitled fate and hostility of existential space. The author of the article directs his attention to the presence of poet’s social predictions for Belarusians. Symbolic form and content, conventionality of artistic form and its elements (mysticism, recurrence, analogy of events, etc.), semantic code, problems, combination of the past, present and future in the space of dream-code have been analyzed. In order to reinforce conclusions about the conceptual way of artistic presentation of reality in Y. Kupala’s oeuvre, the author compares the poem “Son na kurganye” to other poems (“Razlad”, “Son”, “Syabroutsam na doli”, “Prystal k žit’..”, “Prarok”, “Uwies da dna”, “Viečarynka”, “Adviečnaya piesnya”, “Kurgan”, “Yana i ya”, tragycomedy “Tuteyšija”).

Niematerialne dziedzictwo kulturowe w warunkach pandemii COVID-19. Analiza porównawcza wybranych przykładów z Polski i Białorusi

The article discusses strategies to overcome the fear of the COVID-19 pandemic and its threats in the sphere of the intangible heritage in Poland and Belarus. The strategies are presented as activities that make an adaptive use of the measures for safeguarding recommended by the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage 2003. Activities to maintain the viability of the intangible heritage have both similarities and differences in both countries. The difference is revealed in the institutional sphere of heritage safeguarding. The similarities have a negative dimension (resignation from actions, disruptions in the transmission of knowledge) and a positive dimension (a two-model strategy of transforming traditional practices, the use of the Internet and multimedia instruments).