![]() ![]() ![]() ‘The force of her work, the source of its power and plausibility, is the choice of a generation (her own) as a major subject and the close attention to its major inflection point, which was the end of the Soviet Union…Her method is the close interrogation of the past through the collection of individual voices patient in overcoming cliché, attentive to the unexpected, and restrained in the exposition, her writing reaches those far beyond her own experiences and preoccupations, far beyond her generation, and far beyond the lands of the former Soviet Union…Her central attainment, the recovery of experience from myth, has made her an acute critic of the nostalgic dictatorships in Belarus and Russia…Her non-fiction works as a kind of anti-fiction, and alternative to the alternative realities which, in both Russia and Belarus, arise behind the blindfold of a double nostalgia: of today’s ruling elite for the 1970s and 1980s, which were themselves a time of manufactured nostalgia for the Soviet 1930s and 1940s…Her Nobel Prize will expand the Russian world of letters, since her prose is accessible not only to those who share her background and concerns but to younger people who can learn from her what the Soviet Union was and what its legacy means. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich (Translator) 5.0 (5) Paperback (Reprint) 17.99 20. 1 Secondhand Time, by the Nobel prize winning author Svetlana Alexievich (and very well translated by Bela Shayevich) is an account of the ways other than murder in which the Communist ideological lie destroyed persons and intellects. ![]()
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