ALEXANDER FAINBERG’S “1942. AUTUMN”: THE POETIC EXPRESSION OF WAR-TIME CHILDHOOD MEMORY
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Keywords

Alexander Fainberg, war poetry, childhood memory, trauma, minimalism, poetic detail, collective memory.

How to Cite

ODILOVA , C. (2026). ALEXANDER FAINBERG’S “1942. AUTUMN”: THE POETIC EXPRESSION OF WAR-TIME CHILDHOOD MEMORY. Journal of Science and Innovative Research Studies, 1(1), 13-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18372440

Abstract

This scholarly article provides a comprehensive analysis of Alexander Fainberg’s poem “1942. Autumn” from the perspectives of cultural memory of the Second World War, the child’s viewpoint, and minimalist poetics. The poem stands out for its depiction of children’s lives on the home front through minor everyday details, its fragmentary memory technique, and its sound-based poetic structure. The study integrates historical-contextual, semantic, and psychological approaches, interpreting the poem as an artistic document of wartime literature.

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