THE SOCIAL MYTHOLOGEME “THE PREVALENCE OF THE PUBLIC OVER THE PERSONAL” AND HISTORICAL REALITY IN BELARUSIAN LITERARY WORKS ON INDUSTRIAL THEME

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to reveal the myth-making potential of Soviet literary works on industrial theme (based on the material of the Belarusian literature), which is realized through the author’s assertion of the social mythologeme “the prevalence of the public over the personal” in accordance with the requirement of the social ordering. The main characters of the studied works, embodying the social type “Soviet man”, are opposed to the social types “philistine”, “careerist”, “bureaucrat”, which are criticized, as well as a number of negative phenomena in the Soviet society. Meanwhile, the depiction of the historical everyday life of the characters destroys the Soviet social mythologeme about the primacy of public interests over personal ones, which can be regarded as the author’s way to resist the demand of the social ordering and desire to convey historical truth to the reader.