Венера, или как я был крепостником

"Venera, ili Kak i͡a byl krepostnikom" - ranee ne vykhodivshai͡a v Rossii povestʹ belorusskogo pisateli͡a Alesi͡a Adamovicha, vsemirnui͡u izvestnostʹ kotoromu prinesli knigi o voĭne. Romany avtora perevedeny bolee chem na 20 i͡azykov.Ėta povestʹ vpervye byla napechatana pri zhizni avtora v zhurnale "Nëman" v 1992 g. Ona pereklikaetsi͡a s dokumentalʹnoĭ knigoĭ "I͡A iz ognennoĭ derevni" (Adamovich A., Brylʹ I͡A., Kolesnik V.), povestvui͡ushcheĭ o beschelovechnosti fashizma v rasskazakh tekh, kto ut͡selel, kogo ne sozhgli v khatakh, ambarakh, v t͡serkvi͡akh.V "Venere" podnimaetsi͡a tema, kotorai͡a ne mogla bytʹ osveshchena v 1970-kh gg., i tolʹko v gody perestroĭki i glasnosti, spusti͡a 50 let posle voĭny, poi͡avilasʹ vozmozhnostʹ rasskazatʹ prostui͡u pravdu o neĭ. Ėto povestʹ pro voĭnu i derevni͡u, v neĭ mnogo avtobiografichnogo, dokumentalʹnogo, kotoroe organichno vkhodit, vpletaetsi͡a v khudozhestvennyĭ tekst povestvovanii͡a.Cherez ispovedʹ bezymi͡annogo geroi͡a raskryvaetsi͡a korotkai͡a zhiznʹ Venery Stankevich, pokazyvaetsi͡a eë tragedii͡a, kotorai͡a v osnovnom povtori͡aet sudʹby soten tysi͡ach belorusov v Velikoĭ Otechestvennoĭ voĭne i pervye poslevoennye gody.

"Venus, or How I was a serf" is a novel by the Belarusian writer Ales Adamovich, who was previously unreleased in Russia, and whose books about the war brought worldwide fame. The author's novels have been translated into more than 20 languages.This story was first published during the author's lifetime in the magazine "Neman" in 1992. It echoes the documentary book "I am from the fiery village" (Adamovich A., Bryl Ya., Kolesnik V.), which tells about the inhumanity of fascism in the stories of those who survived, who were not burned in huts, barns, and churches.Venus raises a topic that could not have been covered in the 1970s, and only in the years of perestroika and Glasnost, 50 years after the war, did it become possible to tell the simple truth about it. This is a story about a war and a village, there is a lot of autobiographical, documentary in it, which organically enters and weaves into the artistic text of the narrative.Through the confession of the nameless hero, the short life of Venera Stankevich is revealed, her tragedy is shown, which basically repeats the fate of hundreds of thousands of Belarusians in the Great Patriotic War and the first post-war years.