Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories: Penguin Modern Classics
Autor Svetlana Alexievich Traducere de Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonskyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 noi 2020
'Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth' - Caroline Moorehead,Guardian
Extraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich
What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. With remarkable care and empathy, Alexievich gives voice to those whose stories are lost in the official narratives, uncovering a powerful, hidden history of one of the most important events of the twentieth century.Published to great acclaim in the USSR in 1985 and now available in English for the first time, this masterpiece offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human consequences of the war - and an extraordinary chronicle of the Russian soul.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141983561
ISBN-10: 0141983566
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141983566
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Svetlana
Alexievichwas
born
in
Ivano-Frankivsk
in
1948
and
has
spent
most
of
her
life
in
the
Soviet
Union
and
present-day
Belarus,
with
prolonged
periods
of
exile
in
Western
Europe.
Starting
out
as
a
journalist,
she
developed
her
own,
distinctive
non-fiction
genre
which
brings
together
a
chorus
of
voices
to
describe
a
specific
historical
moment.
Her
works
includeThe
Unwomanly
Face
of
War(1985),
Last
Witnesses(1985),Boys
in
Zinc(1991),Chernobyl
Prayer(1997)
andSecond-Hand
Time(2013).
She
has
won
many
international
awards,
including
the
2015
Nobel
Prize
in
Literature
for
'her
polyphonic
writings,
a
monument
to
suffering
and
courage
in
our
time'.
Richard Pevear, along with his wife Larissa Volokhonsky, has translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov and Pasternak. They both were twice awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky'sThe Brothers Karamazovand Tolstoy'sAnna Karenina). They are married and live in France.
Larissa Volokhonsky, along with her husband Richard Pevear, has translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov and Pasternak. They both were twice awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky'sThe Brothers Karamazovand Tolstoy'sAnna Karenina). They are married and live in France.
Richard Pevear, along with his wife Larissa Volokhonsky, has translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov and Pasternak. They both were twice awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky'sThe Brothers Karamazovand Tolstoy'sAnna Karenina). They are married and live in France.
Larissa Volokhonsky, along with her husband Richard Pevear, has translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov and Pasternak. They both were twice awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky'sThe Brothers Karamazovand Tolstoy'sAnna Karenina). They are married and live in France.
Recenzii
A
masterpiece
of
clear-eyed
humility.
.
.
Alexievich
is
the
most
inspired
and
inspiring
of
all
Nobel
prize
winners,
a
genuine
bearer
of
witness
Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth. . . Few people have ever conjured better the pain of loss
An antidote to nostalgic World War II narratives. . . Breathtaking, occasionally unbearably sad. Svetlana Alexievich is in a class of her own
A major work by one of our greatest living historians. . . a profound, revelatory book. Through an artfully crafted and sincerely empathetic technique of enticing, soothing, and teasing out - gentle, unobtrusive, knowing when to encourage and when to let a pause run its course - Alexievich uncovers some of the most evocative war stories ever published
These stories demand to be read
If God existed, or had an ear, she might listen the way Svetlana Alexievich does to the stories of her fellow ex-Soviets. . . These stories have a hallucinatory clarity, like visions or nightmares-except they are made simply from the stuff of life
The experience of reading these thousands of human confessions has an astonishingly powerful impact
A masterly and potent reminder that the memory of loss belongs to individuals and communities, and not to the states that turn its psychic energy to other ends
An important historical document. . . offers a harrowing picture of the lives of Russian children caught up in Hitler's invasion on the Eastern Front
Svetlana Alexievich's books go as deep as the soul of woman can go. And now she investigates the soul in the agonized process of historical formation
This new translation will no doubt leave another huge impression on this new generation of readers
Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth. . . Few people have ever conjured better the pain of loss
An antidote to nostalgic World War II narratives. . . Breathtaking, occasionally unbearably sad. Svetlana Alexievich is in a class of her own
A major work by one of our greatest living historians. . . a profound, revelatory book. Through an artfully crafted and sincerely empathetic technique of enticing, soothing, and teasing out - gentle, unobtrusive, knowing when to encourage and when to let a pause run its course - Alexievich uncovers some of the most evocative war stories ever published
These stories demand to be read
If God existed, or had an ear, she might listen the way Svetlana Alexievich does to the stories of her fellow ex-Soviets. . . These stories have a hallucinatory clarity, like visions or nightmares-except they are made simply from the stuff of life
The experience of reading these thousands of human confessions has an astonishingly powerful impact
A masterly and potent reminder that the memory of loss belongs to individuals and communities, and not to the states that turn its psychic energy to other ends
An important historical document. . . offers a harrowing picture of the lives of Russian children caught up in Hitler's invasion on the Eastern Front
Svetlana Alexievich's books go as deep as the soul of woman can go. And now she investigates the soul in the agonized process of historical formation
This new translation will no doubt leave another huge impression on this new generation of readers