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ISBN: 9789632277578

Svetlana Alexievich

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У войны не женское лицо

There were lots of people around, but you were always alone, because a human being is always alone in the face of death.

We went to die for life, without knowing what life was.

The feminine forms were born there, in the war.

Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that war. A women's history.' In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to write her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War, when she realized that she grew up surrounded by women who had fought in the Second World War but whose stories were absent from official narratives. Travelling thousands of miles, she spent years interviewing hundreds of Soviet women - captains, tank drivers, snipers, pilots, nurses and doctors - who had experienced the war on the front lines, on the home front and in occupied territories. With the dawn of Perestroika, a heavily censored edition came out in 1985 and it became a huge bestseller in the Soviet Union - the first in five books that have established her as the conscience of the twentieth century.

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Unwomanly Face of War

What we think of wartime history usually hands us grand military strategies, male soldiers on the frontlines and women left waiting at home or serving in medical tents, but here Alexievich shatters that traditional framing.

Reading this book leaves me with complex mix of awe and profound sadness. The bravery of these women are astonishing, yet the book refuses to romanticize their service. The psychological clash between the instinct to nurture life and necessity of taking it on battlefield. The lingering horror of blood, violence and lost love which no medal or commendation could erase. The reality of returning home not to praise but to societal suspicion, shame and silence from a nation that preffered a sanitized narrative of heroism.

It’s not an easy read for me, but it teach me that true courage isn’t the absent of trauma but the endurance through it and that their long silenced stories deserve to be remembered in all their painful truth.

What we think of wartime history usually hands us grand military strategies, male soldiers on the frontlines and women left waiting at home or serving in medical tents, but here Alexievich shatters that traditional framing.

Reading this book leaves me with complex mix of awe and profound sadness. The bravery of these women are astonishing, yet the book refuses to romanticize their service. The psychological clash between the instinct to nurture life and necessity of taking it on battlefield. The lingering horror of blood, violence and lost love which no medal or commendation could erase. The reality of returning home not to praise but to societal suspicion, shame and silence from a nation that preffered a sanitized narrative of heroism.

It’s not an easy read for me, but it teach me that true courage isn’t the absent of trauma but the endurance through it and that their long silenced stories deserve to be remembered in all their painful truth.

A Guerra Não Tem Rosto de Mulher

An essencial read, a book about being human during desperate times of war, in the words of the ones who survived it. 

Telma Simone

The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of stories from Soviet women who lived through the Second World War: on the front lines, on the home front, and in occupied territories. As Alexievich gives voice to women who are absent from official narratives - captains, sergeants, nurses, snipers, pilots - she shows us a new version of the war we're so familiar with, creating an extraordinary alternative history from their private stories. Published in 1985 in Russia and now available in English for the first time, The Unwomanly Face of War was Alexievich's first book and a huge bestseller in the Soviet Union, establishing her as a brilliantly revolutionary writer.

The Unwomanly Face of War

Nika Khoshdel

La Premio Nobel de Literatura 2015 Svetlana Alexiévich, «la voz de los sin voz», muestra en esta obra maestra una perspectiva de la guerra ignorada hasta el momento: la de las mujeres que combatieron en la segunda guerra mundial. Casi un millón de mujeres combatió en las filas del Ejército Rojo durante la segunda guerra mundial, pero su historia nunca ha sido contada. Este libro reúne los recuerdos de cientos de ellas, mujeres que fueron francotiradoras, condujeron tanques o trabajaron en hospitales de campaña. Su historia no es una historia de la guerra, ni de los combates, es la historia de hombres y mujeres en guerra. ¿Qué les ocurrió? ¿Cómo les transformó? ¿De qué tenían miedo? ¿Cómo era aprender a matar? Estas mujeres, la mayoría por primera vez en sus vidas, cuentan la parte no heroica de la guerra, a menudo ausente de los relatos de los veteranos. Hablan de la suciedad y del frío, del hambre y de la violencia sexual, de la angustia y de la sombra omnipresente de la muerte. Alexiévich deja que sus voces resuenen en este libro estremecedor, que pudo reescribir en 2002 para introducir los fragmentos tachados por la censura y material que no se había atrevido a usar en la primera versión. «[...] por su escritura polifónica, que es un monumento al valor y al sufrimiento en nuestro tiempo.», palabras del Jurado de la Academia Sueca al otorgar a la autora el Premio Nobel de Literatura 2015. «Soy historiadora de almas [...]. Por un lado, estudio a la persona concreta que ha vivido en una época concreta y ha participado en unos acontecimientos concretos; por otro lado, quiero discernir en esa persona al ser humano eterno. La vibración de eternidad. Lo que en él hay de inmutable.» Svetlana Alexiévich Reseñas: «Gracias a Alexiévich, la historia de un millón de mujeres que participaron en el ejército soviético o como partisanas contra los alemanes es algo menos desconocida.» Felipe Sahagún, El Cultural de El Mundo «De la lectura de los libros de Alexiévich (Stanislaviv, 1948) no es posible salir indemne.» Gabriel Albiac, ABC Cultural

La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer

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"Casi un millón de mujeres combatió en las filas del Ejército Rojo durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pero su historia nunca ha sido contada. Este libro reúne los recuerdos de cientos de ellas, mujeres que fueron francotiradoras, condujeron tanques o trabajaron en hospitales de campaña. Su historia no es un relato de la guerra ni de los combates, es la historia de hombres y mujeres en guerra. ¿Qué les ocurrió? ¿Cómo les transformó? ¿De qué tenían miedo? ¿Cómo era aprender a matar? Estas mujeres, la mayoría por primera vez en sus vidas, cuentan la parte no heroica de la guerra, a menudo ausente de los relatos de los veteranos. Hablan de la suciedad y del frío, del hambre y de la violencia sexual, de la angustia y de la sombra omnipresente de la muerte. Alexiévich deja que sus voces resuenen en este libro estremecedor, que pudo reescribir en 2002 para introducir los fragmentos tachados por la censura y material que no se había atrevido a usar en la primera versión."--Page 4 of cover.

La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer/ The Unwomanly Face of War

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La guerre n'a pas un visage de femme, mais les femmes ont été de toutes les guerres. Et Svetlana Alexievitch nous en donne une vision émouvante jusqu'à l'insoutenable. Cette évocation de la Seconde Guerre mondiale bouleverse par la justesse du trait, et se charge du poids de toutes les batailles, de toutes les souffrances, de tous les sacrifices. La vérité des êtres ordinaires surgit à chaque page avec une force insoupçonnée. Pour trouver dans nos cœurs un écho que seuls les écrivains essentiels savent faire résonner. Des centaines de destins forment un chœur tragique que la souffrance au quotidien nourrit à chaque page de son indicible beauté. Le sacrifice devient alors source de vie, et l'on se dit que jamais personne ne nous a parlé de ça comme ça, et l'on a la sensation que ces jeunes filles souriantes en vareuses de soldat seront toujours là, avec nous, et l'on se demande comment on a pu si longtemps se passer d'elles.

La guerre n'a pas un visage de femme

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Kriget har inget kvinnligt ansikte

Martin Ackerfors

Krigen har ikke et kvindeligt ansigt

Helena Pedersen

Pamela Ramirez Olivares 

A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia—from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Guardian • NPR • The Economist • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • Kirkus Reviews 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. THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” “A landmark.”—Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century “An astonishing book, harrowing and life-affirming . . . It deserves the widest possible readership.”—Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train “Alexievich has gained probably the world’s deepest, most eloquent understanding of the post-Soviet condition. . . . [She] has consistently chronicled that which has been intentionally forgotten.”—Masha Gessen, National Book Award–winning author of The Future Is History

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