PSYCHOLOGISM IN WAR PROSE NARRATIVE STRATEGIES OF INNER EXPERIENCE AND MORAL CHOICE

Abstract

This article examines psychologism in twentieth- and twenty-first-century war prose as a system of narrative techniques that render inner experience under extreme historical pressure. War writing repeatedly stages the collision between the public grammar of duty, ideology, and collective memory and the private microdrama of fear, shame, compassion, and moral hesitation. The study proposes an analytical model that links forms of focalization, interior speech, sensory detail, temporal fracture, and ethical evaluation to the representation of combat stress and post-traumatic memory. On the basis of comparative readings of Russian, European, and Anglo-American traditions, the article shows how psychologism becomes a structural principle: it shapes plot dynamics, organizes character relations, and converts external action into an event of consciousness.