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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