读过《The Unwomanly Face of War》 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
A book of pain…没有经历过战争的我们很难想象战争的样子，仅仅听这些叙述感受到的痛苦恐怕不及当事人的万分之一……Alexievich很擅长这种组织材料的方式，几乎没有表达过自己的想法、情感，但抛开宏大叙事，借他人之口将事实、经历、情感一点点铺陈在眼前，字字句句都是切肤之痛。战争不是女人的领域，女人的本能是爱而非憎恨，是创造生命而非杀戮，很难想象因为穿着不同的制服就对一个人产生纯粹的恨意，男人似乎也不愿女人涉足，然而无情的战争并不会选择，女人也别无选择，她们被卷入其中，无论在前线还是后方都有她们无助但坚毅的身影，然而战后，取得胜利的祖国又把她们悉数抛弃，战功累累的她们没有身披荣光，她们的战争从来没有结束。
The Unwomanly Face of War [Book] Douban
У войны не женское лицо
author:
Svetlana Alexievich
translator:
Richard Pevear
/
Larissa Volokhonsky
publishing house:
Random House
2017
- 7
For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century. When the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize, it cited her invention of “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions . . . a history of the soul.”
In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in total—were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten.
Alexievich traveled thousands of miles and visited more than a hundred towns to record these women’s stories. Together, this symphony of voices reveals a different aspect of the war—the everyday details of life in combat left out of the official histories.
Translated by the renowned Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Unwomanly Face of War is a powerful and poignant account of the central conflict of the twentieth century, a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human side of war.
“But why? I asked myself more than once. Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? Their words and feelings? They did not believe themselves. A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that war. A women’s history.”—Svetlana Alexievich
THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”
In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in total—were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten.
Alexievich traveled thousands of miles and visited more than a hundred towns to record these women’s stories. Together, this symphony of voices reveals a different aspect of the war—the everyday details of life in combat left out of the official histories.
Translated by the renowned Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Unwomanly Face of War is a powerful and poignant account of the central conflict of the twentieth century, a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human side of war.
“But why? I asked myself more than once. Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? Their words and feelings? They did not believe themselves. A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that war. A women’s history.”—Svetlana Alexievich
THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”