Secondhand Time

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’.

出版者:Random House

作者:Svetlana Alexievich

页数:496

译者:Bela Shayevich

出版时间:2016-5-24

价格:USD 30.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780399588808

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

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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.

读后感

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...  

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...  

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...  

我曾经与俄罗斯人提到戈尔巴乔夫，得到的回应是充满气愤的：“那是个美国间谍啊！”于是对话没有再就此进行下去。我原以为这只是一部分人的观点，直到后来发现俄罗斯大部分对此深信不疑。对于戈尔巴乔夫，东西方史学界的评论是完全分裂的，在西方，由于他放弃勃列日涅夫主义，...  

《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：...  

用户评价

读罢此书，久久不能平复心绪！

想知道Perestroika为何失败（书中并没有解答），配合当下食用更佳～

斯大林時代過去了，人民的生活變好了麽？沒有。戈爾巴喬夫執政，到後來蘇聯解體，再到資本主義，人民生活變好了嗎？沒有。每個政權都有各自支持和反對的人，每個時代都有得有失。似乎個體受時代的影響，但卻不怎麽能影響時代。人能活著已經很不錯，而普通人，承載著悲傷痛苦和歡樂，一代又一代地活著。歷史是有相似性的，人類共同命運其實是一樣。（讀此書很難開心起來，略沉重）

《切尔诺贝利的声音》描写恐怖，而这本写的是叶芝说的，恐怖的美。听懂俄文的人说，俄文本身是门特别melodramatic的语言，而Alexievich的作品给这种语言找到了最好的内容。

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」