“Iba sovietsky človek môže pochopiť sovietskeho človeka.” cituje Svetlana Alexijevič v úvode knihy Časy zo second handu jedného zo svojich hrdinov. Ako to? Poviete si. A kto je vlastne ten sovietsky človek?
Príspevok Svetlana Alexijevič: Časy zo second handu (Koniec červeného človeka) zobrazený najskôr Recenzie kníh.
Chceli zmenu, no niektorí si to takto vôbec nepredstavovali. Mysleli si, že zostane komunizmus, ale iný. Rozpadom ZSSR sa veľa zmenilo a nepriaznivo to ovplyvnilo obyčajného človeka. Ideály, ktorým verili, sa akoby šmahom ruky premenili na prach – už nič neznamenali.Ale ako to vysvetliť obyvateľstvu, ktoré bolo zvyknuté, že ich život niekto riadi? Že majetok bol predtým spoločný, no teraz[...]
From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices… ...
From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia.
Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of Soviet culture and speculating on what will rise from the ashes of Communism.
As in all her books, Alexievich gives voice to women and men whose stories are lost in the official narratives of nation-states, creating a powerful alternative history from the personal and private stories of individuals.
Svetlana Alexievich was born in the Ukraine in 1948 and grew up in Belarus. As a newspaper journalist, she spent her early career in Minsk compiling first-hand accounts of World War II, the Soviet-Afghan War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Chernobyl meltdown. Her unflinching work—‘the whole of our history…is a huge common grave and a bloodbath’—earned her persecution from the Lukashenko regime and she was forced to emigrate. She lived in Paris, Gothenburg and Berlin before returning to Minsk in 2011. She has won a number of prizes, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Prix Médicis, and the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award. In 2015, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Bela Shayevich is a writer, translator and illustrator. Her translations have appeared in journals such as Little Star, St. Petersburg Review, and Calque. She was the editor of n+1 magazine’s translations of the Pussy Riot closing statements. Of Alexievich’s writing, she says it is ‘resounding with nothing but the truth’.
