Friday, October 9, 2015

A Nobel Prize for Literature, which undermines Soviet mythology – The World

Svetlana Alexievitch in Minsk in November 2014.

” I have the passion for the real ‘, she says gladly. In awarding the Nobel Prize to Svetlana Alexievitch, Thursday, October 8, the Swedish Academy awarded a writer who conceives its mission as a fight for the truth, against the silence and fainting things. The jury praised a “ polyphonic work, suffering and courage memorial ” fully anchored in the memory of the USSR.

From book to book, the Belarusian writer born in 1948 explores the major disasters of the Soviet century – World War II, war in Afghanistan, Chernobyl, Empire burst – and injuries of those who were witnesses or actors. His work on the edge of the documentary denounces conflicts, the sacrifice of the individual by the state, violence, lying on which was woven the history of the ancient empire. In its public statements, it points the same when the pain began to see in its two home countries: Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin’s Russia

During a. press conference in Minsk in the premises of a friend tiny newspaper Thursday Alexievitch Svetlana recalled this link: “My books do not just talk about the past, they speak of our foundations. Totalitarianism has transformed our people. We are all victims and perpetrators, traumatized by the Soviet experience. “

Accused, defamed, listened

Political Nobel Prize, like Pasternak (1958) or Solzhenitsyn (1970)? Have we then …

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