SOCIAL MYTH VERSUS NATIONAL ISSUE IN THE NOVEL «VILNA COMMUNARDS» BY M. HARECKI

Abstract

 The aim of this article is to reveal the attitude to social myth within the triad «author – hero-narrator − reader» based on the novel «Vilna Communards» by M. Harecki. On the one hand, the novel takes the position of servility in relation to existing at the time of its creation social myth about the national issue as secondary to the issue of political orientation and the revolution as a necessary event in the construction of a just society. On the other hand, the first-person narrative allows the author of the novel to distance from the point of view of the Bolshevik-narrator, which, obviously, was previously shared by the author himself. The reader of the Soviet era embraced this point of view, while the modern reader, having a different outlook and historical knowledge, refers to it critically and forms his own attitude to the events of the novel. A modern feature of the perception of «Vilna Communards» lies in the fact that the idea of national self-determination is a social myth for the Bolshevik-narrator, while revolutionary ideas are utopian for the reader of our time.