Who is the Nobel Prize for Literature? – The Digital Liberal

Published 10/11/2015 – Born in Ukraine, the daughter of a Soviet military, Belarusian origin. When his father retired from the Army, the family settled in Belarus and there she studied journalism at the University of Minsk and worked in various media. He became known with The war has a female face, a work that was completed in 1983 but, for questioning clichés about Soviet heroism and its harshness, became only published two years later thanks to the reform process known perestroika. The premiere of the stage version of that stark chronicle of the Taganka Theater in Moscow in 1985, marked a milestone in opening up initiated by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Heavily influenced by the writer Ales Adamovich, whom he considers his teacher, Alexievich address their issues with technique Feature. His specialty is let flow the corals -monólogos voices and experiences around the “red man” or “homo Sovieticus” and also former Soviet republics. Alexievich’s work revolves around the Soviet Union to break this concept into individual and shared destinies and, above all, in particular tragedies. Alexievich moves in the field of drama, explores the most terrible and desolate experiences and looks again and again to death. Málchiki Tsinkovye published in 1989 (The boys zinc) on the experience of the war in Afghanistan. To write the country interviewing mothers of soldiers who died in the contest ran. In 1993, he published Zacharovannye Smertiu (Captivated by death) on suicides of those who could not survive the end of the socialist idea. In 1997, it was the turn of the catastrophe of Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Chernobyl Voices, published in Castilian in 2006 by Editorial Siglo XXI, which reissued last year Penguin Random House. Last year launched resale time. The end of the red man, published in German and Russian. In this new document, Alexievich intends “honestly listen to all participants of the socialist drama,” says the preface. The writer says that “homo Sovieticus” is still alive, and not only Russian, but also Belarusian, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Kazakh … “Now we live in different states, we speak in different languages, but we are unmistakable, we recognized followed. All of us are children of socialism, “he says, referring to those who are its” neighbors by memory “. “The world has completely changed and we were not really prepared,” he said in a recent interview with Le Monde. Still trapped in the Soviet space, Alexievich inquires with anguish and suffering on the end of a culture, a civilization, a myth and a hope. Critical of the regime of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the writer resides most of the time abroad and lately it does in Germany, where his latest book has had a huge impact.