THE IMAGE OF THE LYRICAL HERO IN M.-S. PLIEV’S NOVEL “BALAN DI” (“DAY OF SORROW”)

Abstract

The object of the study of this article is a novel in verse by M.-S. Pliev “Balan di” (“Day of Sorrow”). In this novel, the poet describes in great detail the road to Siberia, the hard life in a foreign country. Masterfully using antithesis techniques, he told about returning home, enhancing the sharp contrast of the beginning and ending of the work. For M.-S. Pliev, the events of those years were not information received from other people’s mouths. He was an eyewitness to everything that happened to his people. The author himself appears in the image of the lyrical hero. In the process, the evolution of the character of the hero is traced. Through the prism of his vision of the events taking place, the author plunges the reader into the abyss of hopelessness and arbitrariness of a cruel regime: painfully tells about the famine days, about families cut out by typhus, about inhuman living conditions and hard work in an unusual environment. There is a feeling that the author communicates directly with the reader, through his thoughts the author reveals the psychological portraits of the other characters even more deeply. Together with the lyrical hero, the reader plunges into the heavy atmosphere of a stuffy carriage, where a teenager, separated from his family, has been experiencing hunger and cold for two weeks, and watches his fellow travelers die one by one every day.