Camila Ortiz
El Mercurio. Chile. GDA
N acid in Ukraine but raised in Belarus, Svetlana Alexievich (1948), 67, studied journalism at the University of Minsk. He worked in various media, but recognition came with his first book, The face of war has no woman . Published in 1985, it presents a raw and honest account of women’s participation in World War II. More than one million women between 15 and 30 years, fought on the front, which was forgotten by the official version.
“This book was like the bursting of a pump because all our foundational landmark was built with the story of the Second World War, but the women themselves did not have what it was like war, “says the Russian historian Olga Ulyanova.
More Then came the book The last witnesses , where Alexievich recounts the war from the perspective of those with between seven and twelve years.
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In a society where the heritage of the warfare has become a fundamental part of the collective memory, Alexievich was able to give a voice to the forgotten actors. female soldiers, children, widows and relatives of the victims
The explosion Chernobyl nuclear, war in Afghanistan and the consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union in the construction of identity, have also been detailed by Alexievich, making rapporteur of the most painful episodes in recent Russian history.
“It is a woman of an impressive, able to detail the violence in the tragedy of Chernobyl and to show the collapse of Russia after the fall of the wall, with all the social, political and cultural change prose it has resisted this area dismembered. It was a big surprise; is a great award for investigative journalism gets where narrative and fiction fail, “says Sergio Parra Chilean bookseller.
The soul Russian-Soviet. After announcing the award, the Swedish Academy said to Alexievich for their “polyphonic scriptures, a monument to suffering and courage of our times”.
is a work that is constructed thoroughly: each book, noted author, it takes on average three years and be interviewed between 500 and 700
“I do not record only an arid history. facts and events, but I write a story of human emotions. My chronicle spanning generations. Start with the memories of those who witnessed the Revolution of 1917, through wars and gulag Stalinists, and reaches the present times. Is the history of Russian-Soviet soul, “said Svetlana Alexievich as a summary of his career
” When you talk about Russian literature, usually imagines great novelists: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pasternak … Alexievich’s work is different: the construction of documentary reportage. In the classic Russian novel have polyphony through which the author gives his characters different voices, but she gives this polyphony documentary form, “says Ulyanova.
Of his five books, Voices of Chernobyl (Editorial Debolsillo) is the only one that can be found in Spanish. It is a powerful choral story that details the various dimensions of the tragedy from “monologues” where the protagonists tell their version.
“Voices from Chernobyl is quite exemplary of his work. Collect testimonials from firefighters, their women and their families: of a whole group of people who faced the unknown without seeing the lethal consequences resulting from facts, “says Ricard San Vicente, who translated this title
Tribute to journalism. Although set in the betting for the Nobel for years, the award Alexievich surprised to highlight the first journalistic genre.
“It is absurd that idea collapsed and extended that journalism is a genre fiction lower against. This award also recognized posthumously to Anna Politkosvkaya and other journalists who paid dearly for their complaints against the horrors in Russia and what was the Soviet Union before, “says the director of the School of Journalism at the University Alberto Hurtado, Juan Cristóbal Peña. He agrees with his counterpart at the Catholic University of Chile, Gonzalo Saavedra:
-The Nobel a writer for his journalistic work is a major literary event which confirms what a party Academy and critics are calling for decades: that literature is also considered those accounts that are able to express with words, the quality of the experience, regardless of their characters are paper or meat and bone
“The fact is that chronic Alexievich Svetlana genre seems a formidable gesture towards our profession. There have been a number of chronic high literary quality in recent decades, but have been categorized as memories and other things. ” In turn, the American reporter Jon Lee Anderson points to Mercury
“With someone like Svetlana Alexievich can build a canon literary itself. This is one of those cases where the Nobel been successful. “
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