Conception of national identity as the ideological and philosophical dominant of А. Аdamo vich’s story “Venus, or how i was a slave owner”

This article is devoted to the concept of national identity, developed by the Belarusian writer and philosopher A. Adamovich in his story “Venus, or how i was a slave owner”. The introduction of the work is devoted to the theoretical development of the conceptual apparatus of the study: establishing the exact meaning of the terms “concept”, “conception”, “conceptuality”. Based on the works of well­known Belarusian and foreign, the author builds a logical chain of communication between these terms, suitable for practical use in the study of the concept sphere of fictional prose works. The main part of the article is devoted to the peculiarities of the functioning of the concept of national identity as an ideological and philosophical dominant of the story under study. The author considers it as a complex­structured system of concepts formed from content­axiological dominants. The author notes that A. Adamovich pays special attention to the spiritual component of the life of the Belarusian people, and also focuses on its both heroic and tragic fate. A separate place in the disclosure of the concept of national identity is occupied by the concepts of repression and war, as they have left a serious imprint on the collective self­consciousness of the people. Due to such structuredness, versatility and universalism of the concept sphere, A. Adamovich managed to create a vivid and original portrait of Belarusians in the first half of the 20th century.