CHERNOBYL IN NUCLEAR DISCOURSE: LITERATURE, MUSIC, PSYCHOHISTORY
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https://doi.org/10.31652/3041-1017-2025(5-2)-27Keywords:
poetry, ballad, song, poem, melos, apocalypse, performance, interpretation, arrangement.Abstract
The article is an attempt at a systematic analysis of artistic, personal, literary and musical material about the Chernobyl disaster (about the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and its consequences in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries), which is actively represented in various forms and genres, personal, in song lyrics, in ballads, in songs, elegies, etc. The largest man-made disaster that occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (on Unit 4) on April 26, 1986 during the design tests of one of the non-pek systems was recreated as much as possible through emotion. The expression of technogenicity is the burden of the undisguised truth about the scale of the consequences of the tragedy not only for the environment, but also for the whole world, about the future of the planet.The influence of eco-art on the consciousness of a modern person is connected with the fact that the consciousness first perceived, for example, the suspended construction of reactors, in particular, of the Chernobyl type, on the other hand, it faced new challenges with the intention in Ukraine. It turned out that authoritarianism, regularity, total control are the destructive features of society that still pose a threat to world democracy. Therefore, the researched array of literary and musical works will reserve hermeneutic, receptive, didactic, state-building contexts. The experience of man-made disasters produces the universalization and renewal of the possibilities of art, with a focus on humanism.References
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