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 nonfiction genre, which gathers a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Her works include The Unwomanly Face of War (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.”
From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties―and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. Creating controversy and outrage when it was first published in the USSR―it was called by reviewers there a “slanderous piece of fantasy” and part of a “hysterical chorus of malign attacks”―Zinky Boys presents the candid and affecting testimony of the officers and grunts, nurses and prostitutes, mothers, sons, and daughters who describe the war and its lasting effects. What emerges is a story that is shocking in its brutality and revelatory in its similarities to the American experience in Vietnam. The Soviet dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins (hence the term “Zinky Boys”), while the state denied the very existence of the conflict. Svetlana Alexievich brings us the truth of the Soviet-Afghan War: the beauty of the country and the savage Army bullying, the killing and the mutilation, the profusion of Western goods, the shame and shattered lives of returned veterans. Zinky Boys offers a unique, harrowing, and unforgettably powerful insight into the realities of war.
对军人总是有种莫名的亲切感,大概是因为从小在军人堆里长大的缘故吧。 小时候,特别喜欢站在路边,看整齐的军人队列在林荫道上齐步走过,也喜欢和同龄的孩子们玩着关于战争的游戏,每个孩子都争着想当一名英勇的解放军去英勇杀敌。游戏中,孩子们双手模仿着枪的形状,对着另一...
评分《锌皮娃娃兵》S.A.阿列克谢耶维奇 第一次认识到战争的残酷,大概是在看了电影《芳华》中的战争场面,特别是被救治的伤员和阵亡者的遗体,好像肢体和内脏器官都是可拆卸的零件,而《锌皮娃娃兵》中描述的战争血腥残酷面与此几乎相同。战争分解了一个完整的人,既是肉体层面的,...
评分站在我们的立场看,这是一场个人对集体的控诉。天平似乎从来都过分倾斜,而人们又被封口缄默,让所有声音在肝肠里聚集、翻滚、轰炸,冲破皮囊灌入口鼻,再变作一口气化为虚无,生产出一剂刺痛神经的止痛药。 我们都知道,在这个时代,你用青春和生命交换的,不过是一张空头支票...
评分在苏阿战争中阵亡的苏联士兵被装进锌皮棺材运回国内,这些士兵大多是被新征入伍20岁左右的年轻人,因此也被称为锌皮娃娃兵。 今天介绍的是2015年诺奖得主白俄罗斯女作家S.A.阿列克谢耶维奇的作品《锌皮娃娃兵》,这本书记录了参加过苏阿战争的士兵及烈士家属的陈述。在介绍这本...
评分战争内容的虚构类的小说,非虚构类的历史著作,看过的,没看过的,多少都会带着开边拓土的激情。封狼居胥也好,中途岛海战也罢,哪怕是崖山之役,也多少会带着哪怕一点点激情的,但本书所作为“背景”所讲述的阿富汗战争却看不到哪怕一丝激情。在这里the war equals to the dis...
诺贝尔文学奖作家的代表作之一,以口述形式记录了各色各样亲历了苏联入侵阿富汗十年战争的人们:军人,护士,心碎的母亲。书名意指当时阵亡的苏联士兵装在封死的锌皮棺材中,而那些士兵大多只是十八九岁的孩子。战争的荒唐残酷,军队的腐败混乱,种种情境如同人间地狱,而这种人间地狱,二十多年来每天都在这个世界上演,如今更是愈演愈烈。我对国际政治所知有限,不敢妄言,也反感任何简单粗暴的断言。愿第三次世界战争永远不来,愿人间再无任何战争。
评分"You'll find another soldier...to hold you... and... I'll never kiss your lips again...Or break your heart." (Tom Waits, Ruby's Arms, 1980)
评分每一个字都是一滴血。
评分每一个字都是一滴血。
评分1992 "There’s something immoral, voyeuristic about peering too closely at a person’s courage in the face of danger/be branded/Fear is more human than bravery/the murder of courage/the definition of politics?mosquito piss but even thinner than that/I brought my truth back in a plastic bag head arms legs all skinned/War has a strange logic of its own
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