N2 - The book The Secondhand Time completes the artistic-documentary cycle of works The Voices of Utopia by S. Aleksievich, a Russian-speaking Belarusian author. Like her other books, it actualizes, in her own words, “the genre of human voices, confessions, testimonies and documents of a human soul”. Unlike Western documentary writers whose works oppose the artistic world by undressing and desacralizing it, S. Aleksievich, by following the traditions of the Russian literature, strives to preserve the sacred in her material, oftentimes introducing the artistic and esthetic elements. The article analyzes the tools that the author uses in her book, such as selecning facts and documents, alternating “voices”, editing them, including other sources in the text, moving from location to locatoin, explicit and implicit depiction of conscience, psychology of interlocutors, accentuating basic elements in monologues and remarks, allusions, reminiscences, etc. The conclusion evaluates artistic value of this work. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/107858/PDF-MASTER/Slavia%20Orient.%202-18%203-Szewczenko.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/107858 PY - 2018 IS - No 2 KW - documentary prose KW - testimony of eyewitnesses KW - editing KW - psychological characteristics KW - remarks KW - author’s position A1 - Szewczenko, Ludmiła PB - Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN VL - vol. LXVII DA - 2018.07.05 T1 - Поэтика документализма в книге Светланы Алексиевич "Время секонд хэнд". UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/107858 T2 - Slavia Orientalis