Second-hand Time
Second-hand Time is the latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for inventing 'a new kind of literary genre'. Here she brings together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a formidable attempt to chart the disappearance of a culture and to surmise what new kind of man may emerge from the rubble. Fashioning a singular, polyphonic literary form by combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, Alexievich creates a magnificent requiem to a civilization in ruins, a brilliant, poignant and unique portrait of post-Soviet society out of the stories of ordinary…
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- ISBN: 978-1-910695-12-8
- EAN: 9781910695128
- Produktnummer: 19884812
- Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 704 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'261 KB
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Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ukraine in 1948 and grew up in Belarus. She's primarily a newspaper journalist, and spenther 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, andBerlin before returning to Minsk in 2011. She's won a number of large prizes, including the National Book Critics CircleAward, the Prix Médicis, and the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award. In 2015, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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