Ethnotype of Lithuanians in the Works of Maxim Gаretsky

Abstract

The image of a Lithuanian is one of the least studied in Belarusian literature. Presumably, the author who created the earliest variants of this ethnotype in the 20th century is Maxim Garetsky, whose story The Lithuanian Farm (1915) is the object of this imagological study. The article highlights the qualities assigned by the author to the Lithuanian characters, compared with the qualities (including imagems) of other ethnic images, relevant for the artistic space of the work – German, Russian, Jewish. The nature of the detected delegated metaimages is examined. The question is raised whether the Lithuanian ethnotype created by Garetsky has become the imagotype of Belarusian literature.