Abstrakt
The topic of the memory of civilian victims of World War II and their importance in construction of Belarusian identity has been quite popular in recent years. However, research in the field of literary studies requires further refinement.
Therefore this papers aims to present different ways in which the Belarusian writer Ales Adamovich works with narrative and cultural category of space in his documentary and fictional works. Using various concepts of literary studies and memory studies, the paper demonstrates how space, especially important places of cultural memory, is used in Adamovich's texts to constitute Belarusian national identity.
It also demonstrates how Adamovich subverts or, on the contrary, confirms official Soviet politics of memory.