Genre-stylistic specifics of modern Belarusian historical prose

The aim of the article is the genre-stylistic features and specifics of the modern Belarusian historical prose, which are considered through the prism of reconstruction as a literary method used by the writer as one of the main ways of constructing a collective historical memory. The method of research is historical-literary and motivic analysis. In the process of analysis of selected works by Uladzimir Karatkievic and Uladzimir Arlou, worldview prerequisites and the main ways of implementing writing strategies are examined, as well as the issue of the influence of the subject of a literary work on its genre and stylistic specifics. Uladzimir Karatkievic referred to some of the major events, characterizing the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, then undertook a massive reconstruction of that period. Karatkievic thoroughly examines Belarusians and “Belarusianness”, reconstructing and constructing these notions in a very untypical way for the Soviet literature and ideology. Uladzimir Arlou chose a different path in his endeavor to reconstruct the past. In a series of works the writer starts from written sources of information (sometimes really scarce and fractional) in order to reconstruct the context.