Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, 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 nonfiction genre, which gathers a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Her works include War’s Unwomanly Face (1985), Last Witnesses (1985), Zinky Boys (1990), Voices from Chernobyl (1997), and Secondhand 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.”
Svetlana Alexievich was born in the Ukraine in 1948 and grew up in Belarus. As a newspaper journalist, she spent her 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 and Berlin before returning to Minsk in 2011. She has won a number of prizes, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Prix Médicis, and the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award. In 2015, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Bela Shayevich is a writer, translator and illustrator. Her translations have appeared in journals such as Little Star, St. Petersburg Review, and Calque. She was the editor of n+1 magazine’s translations of the Pussy Riot closing statements. Of Alexievich’s writing, she says it is ‘resounding with nothing but the truth’.
发表于2025-06-02
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首先是这本书的第一篇中的这句话吸引了我——历史只关心事实,情感被排除在外。 《二手时间》记录了苏联解体之后留下的精神空白,无所寄托,这些空白被作者用社会各阶层具体到个体的人的情绪所填满。 我尝试摘录一些片段,重新组合,还原作者的“复调”。 他们执着于理想,将理...
评分个人认为阿列克谢耶维奇的诺贝尔文学奖就是基于这部作品——《二手时间》,以口述历史的方式,作者二十年间走遍前苏联,以录音和笔记的方式记录下人们的讲述,以苏联解体为分界线,记录下改革前后前苏联人民的私人历史,受访者包括共产党员,犹太人,劳改营归来者,“苏联分子...
评分没有人教育过我们什么是自由,我们只被教育过怎么为自由而牺牲。 ——二手时间 《二手时间》的作者是2015年诺贝尔文学奖得主、白俄罗斯著名作家S.A.阿列...
评分《切尔诺贝利的悲鸣》已经让我充分体验到阿列克谢耶维奇的“纪实力”,她就像一面镜子一样映射出了那个时代的悲怆,《二手时间》同样是这样一部作品,每一个刺痛我神经的地方都加以折页。看着密密麻麻的折页,虽已记不起每一个刺痛神经的点,却清楚地记得那种重复的感觉:...
评分人类的悲剧是这样的:世界是复杂的,每个人都是不一样的个体;但同时每个人的理性又是如此渺小,不能认清其他每一个人。所以我们简化,我们抽象,我们给人们分类,贴上标签,所有的人最终划分为简单的两派……每个个体是敏感的,而人民却是狂热的。归根到底,这种狂热究竟仅仅是...
图书标签: 历史 Russia 英文原版 阿列赫谢耶维奇 白俄罗斯 外国文学 non-fiction 苏俄
From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia.
Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of Soviet culture and speculating on what will rise from the ashes of Communism.
As in all her books, Alexievich gives voice to women and men whose stories are lost in the official narratives of nation-states, creating a powerful alternative history from the personal and private stories of individuals.
讀了前50頁基本就懂了——在蘇聯生活里沒有private sector,在俄羅斯生活裡照樣沒有;畢竟市民和權力共謀的成本實在太高了。所以「治體不需要朋友」
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评分It's about post Soviet Russia, yet not about it. You can find every single war/riot/coup/conflict throughout human history in it. I see Mao, just as I see Trump in it... the hobos; racists; middle class; immigrants; professors; activists; 1%.
评分琐碎到令我暴躁 感觉对内容完全没有整理 就胡乱堆在一起 有些受访者水平不足 自恋有余
评分Full of sad depressing stories, even made readers’ life grey.
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