The “unestablished” genre in Belarusian literature

The advent of the Belarusian novel in the first half of the 1960s stimulated aesthetic and literary-critical thought in the BSSR. Numerous articles, reviews and monographs were written about the novel. Not only colleagues from the Institute of Literature and the Faculty of Philology in Minsk, but also novelist writers themselves showed a strong literary and scientific interest in this genre. More general studies also appeared, and first of all, volumes I and II of the History of Belarusian Soviet Literature, where a significant place is devoted to the novel. And literary Slavic studies in Soviet Belarus, having already shown a number of creative initiatives, intensively introduced comparative analysis, so rarely found in Belarusian literary studies.