Caroline
The unwomanly face of war
av Svetlana Alexievich (forfatter).
Penguin 2017 Heftet
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*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? Their words and feelings? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown... I want to write the history of that war.
A women's history."In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to write her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War, when she realized that she grew up surrounded by women who had fought in the Second World War but whose stories were absent from official narratives. Travelling thousands of miles, she spent years interviewing hundreds of Soviet women - captains, tank drivers, snipers, pilots, nurses and doctors - who had experienced the war on the front lines, on the home front and in occupied territories. As it brings to light their most harrowing memories, this symphony of voices reveals a different side of war, a new range of feelings, smells and colours.After completing the manuscript in 1983, Alexievich was not allowed to publish it because it went against the state-sanctioned history of the war.
With the dawn of Perestroika, a heavily censored edition came out in 1985 and it became a huge bestseller in the Soviet Union - the first in five books that have established her as the conscience of the twentieth century.'As with her other books, terrifying documentation meets great artfulness of construction' Julian Barnes, Guardian'Alexievich's artistry has raised oral history to a totally different dimension' Antony Beevor'Alexievich serves no ideology, only an ideal: to listen closely enough to the ordinary voices of her time to orchestrate them into extraordinary books' Philip Gourevitch, New Yorker
Bokdetaljer
Forlag Penguin
Utgivelsesår 2017
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9780141983523
EAN 9780141983523
Omtalt tid 1939-1945
Omtalt sted Sovjetunionen
Språk Engelsk
Sider 384
Utgave 1
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Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich
13:33, 17. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Suffering is a special kind of knowledge.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich (side 276)
13:38, 17. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
They died in the basements of the Gestapo, and their courage was known only to the walls. And now, forty years later, I mentally kneel to them.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich
13:41, 17. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
I try to understand, how was it possible to survive amid this endless experience of dying?
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich
15:53, 28. juni 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
We look at the past from today; we cannot look at it from anywhere else.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich (side 112)
18:04, 6. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
It's terrible to remember, but it's far more terrible not to remember.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich
01:25, 9. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Love is the only personal event in wartime. All the rest is common - even death.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich (side 243)
13:35, 17. juli 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
In war everything happens more quickly: both life and death. In those few years we lived a whole life.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich
15:42, 28. juni 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Remembering is not a passionate or dispassionate retelling of a reality that is no more, but a new birth of the past, when time goes in reverse. Above all is creativity. As they narrate, people create, they write their life. Sometimes they also write up or rewrite.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich
15:43, 28. juni 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Suffering justifies our hard and ungainly life. For us pain is art.
Caroline siterer The unwomanly face of war av Svetlana Alexievich (side 60)
16:28, 28. juni 2020 Ingen har det som favoritt.
You ask me: what is happiness? I answer...To suddenly find a living man among the dead.
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