lieutenant prose

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Lieutenant prose{{cite web|url=http://rusarticlesjournal.com/1/51363/|title=What authors of "lieutenant prose" told us about?|website=rusarticlesjournal.com}} ({{langx|ru|лейтенантская проза}}) is the body of Russian military fiction penned by former junior officers of the Red Army who drew on their personal experiences during World War II. In "lieutenant prose" protagonists were often (though not always) the junior officers.Шавалеева В. Д. [http://cheloveknauka.com/proizvedeniya-ahiyara-hakimova-o-voyne-v-kontekste-leytenantskoy-prozy#ixzz3ckgx3HXc Произведения Ахияра Хакимова о войне в контексте «лейтенантской прозы»] // Диссертация на соискание ученой степени кандидата филологических наук. Уфа: Башкирский государственный педагогический университет им. М. Акмуллы, 2012. The war is shown without the semi-official pathos and smoothing of sharp points.{{cite web|url=http://hit.media/en/2017/03/12/sovetskij-renessans-vzglyad-cherez-polveka/|title=Soviet "Renaissance". Look through half a century – Hit.Media|website=hit.media}} "Lieutenant prose" emphasizes not the scale of military actions, panoramic battles with many nameless faces and figures of military leaders, but places individual junior officers in the foreground, often depicting their great courage in extreme situations.Maya M. Polekhina [http://elib.sfu-kras.ru/bitstream/handle/2311/20267/15_Polekhina.pdf;jsessionid=BE519B7F9E339CC4D2F0730BCDF4197E?sequence=1 Conceptualization of the Fear of Non-Being in the Book About War “My Lieutenant” by Daniil Granin (on Actualization of Universal Binary Oppositions)] page 1182

The main representatives of the "lieutenant prose" include Viktor Nekrasov, Grigory Baklanov, Yuri Bondarev, Vasil Bykov, Konstantin Vorobyov, Vyacheslav Kondratyev, Viktor Kurochkin, Boris Vasilyev.{{cite web|url=http://russkiymir.ru/en/publications/139777/|title=Last Lieutenant of Russian Literature|website=russkiymir.ru}}