MADRID.- A Svetlana Alexievich bothers stardom. That captures world attention since last year won the Nobel Prize for Literature it out of its natural habitat is the place of the questioner and listen; the background from which constructs his work from a great collage of voices outside.
The tired from touring that perhaps deepens the melancholy trace in his eyes is a side barely lost in the passion of their arguments. Like the characters in his books, responds with long full monologues experiences, anecdotes, complaints and a stark vision of the post-Soviet world dedicated to accurately portray miniaturist.
“It’s nice to be with people who are willing to process information, to think. in Russia and Belarus, my two countries, that no longer occurs. have been closed to the world. they have stopped the process of thinking, a phenomenon that continues only almost clandestine level ” said yesterday to be presented in a conversation with journalists and academics in Madrid.
the author of the children zinc and Voices of Chernobyl that your only goal is to “understand” from the story of ordinary people, those who never had the opportunity to express: “the meaning of my work is to show human feelings, what history often hide or simply ignore.” No renounces his profession as a journalist, but defined without hesitation that their texts are literature. In his view the intensity of events increased at such a rate that prevents writing them quietly, 50 years later, as did Tolstoy. “The literature no longer has that opportunity,” he said.
You like the definition “novels voices” for those five books in reviewing 100 years in the history of Russian world. “In my work I have as a rule letting everyone shout your truth he explained. I as an author can not force reality or intervene. My vision is of course present in the selection. From 3000 interviews use 1000. 100 pages of story perhaps some lines are at the end. “
But his efforts to reconstruct the past does not aspire to anything other than talk about the present and the future. “You’ll parts of Russia and you can go crazy with what you hear people say…” Let’s go to save Europe “have managed to redirect the dissatisfaction of the people towards the external enemy Again, fantasy fortress under siege and militaristic philosophy of Soviet times. “
the rejection of the great Russia Vladimir Putin emerges dreams throughout his speech. But she looks beyond circumstantial president. “It’s not believe that Putin is a kind of demon. In Russia you see Putin in every person who supports it. It’s a collective Putin. They all carry a small Putin inside, with their grudges, their fears, their complexes.”
At 66 still he believes that “socialism with a human face” is possible. Not question a political model but how and when it was applied in Russia and its environment. It does not prevent draw out nostalgia when recalling dreams of freedom of the early 90′s the Communist monster, he argues, they replaced “infinite little monsters” who took by surprise those fighting for change.
Le it hurts to see the Russian cultural elite as fundamental support of the Putin regime. “Some have been able to withstand better than the dollar gulag. He who went to the gulag had nothing to lose but their ideas. Now these people do have material things to defend,” he said.
Opposing has its costs . She’s been accused on their land to receive an award for slandering the Russian people. But the consoling to think that since he won the Nobel power trafficking more cautiously.
For his loyalty to the facts, it is not delivered easy optimism. He talks about the post-Soviet era as the chronicle of a defeat, ruled that there is an opportunity in the immediate future for a revolution in the triumph of freedom and believes that they feel the tectonic movements that anticipate a disaster. “Our generation no longer goes to the squares, leaving the country,” he said. But she will not leave. Minsk needs the environment, the city where he grew up; its people, its geography, its history.
You may have time soon meet a less somber aspect in his work. The book he is writing about love. “It is the continuation of the question that spent years asking me: what is the human being But now I want to approach it in a more private way?”
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