@ARTICLE{Kowalow_Siergiej_“Apostle_2023,
 author={Kowalow, Siergiej},
 volume={vol. LXXII},
 number={No 1},
 pages={75-90},
 journal={Slavia Orientalis},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2023},
 publisher={Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN},
 abstract={The article deals with a phenomenon unique for Belarusian literature of the Soviet period: the dissident, non‐conformist work of Znich (Oleg Bembel). In the context of the history of Belarusian literature, the poet is known as the author of religious‐patriotic and spiritual‐meditative poems, many of which were created outside the walls of the monastery, where the poet has lived since 1996. The author of the article explores a little‐known page in the writer’s work: the early, dissident poetry of Oleg Bembel of the first half of the 1980s, which was distributed in manuscripts, samizdat, was published in the émigré press (newspaper and the “Belarus” publishing house). In terms of genre, these were mostly short epigrams and poems dedicated to the classics of Belarusian literature (Francis Bahushevich, Janka Kupala, Maxim Bahdanovich). Thematically the article is concerned with poems about the tragic situation of the Belarusian language, culture, science in the USSR, Russification and the decline of spirituality in an atheistic country. Attention is drawn to the artistic form of the poems, emphasized is their attachment to the intellectual and philosophical trends within modern Belarusian poetry.},
 type={Artykuły / Articles},
 title={“Apostle of Nonconformity”: Oleg Bembel’s (Znich) Dissident Period},
 URL={http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/127874/PDF-MASTER/2023-01-SOR-06.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/slo.2023.145198},
 keywords={totalitarianism, non‐conformism, samizdat, Belarusian poetry, epigrams, Oleg Bembel (Znich)},
}