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" I name the genre that I write in as 'novel of voices.' "
Svetlana Alexievich
Voices
Novel
Write
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" When people talk, it matters how they place words next to each other. "
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" What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time. "
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" I used to live in a village, and I always loved listening to old people. Unfortunately, it was always women who were talking, because after the war, very few men were around. I spent my entire life living in the village. The village is always talking about itself; people are talking to each other as the village makes sense of itself. "
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" The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on the Internet. You're not going to hear it there. "
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" I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time. "
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" I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear hears and my eyes see life. I tried this and that, and finally, I chose a genre where human voices speak for themselves. But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts; I'm writing a history of human feelings. "
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" Love is what brings us into this world. "
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" All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history. "
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" There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on. "
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" I'm interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits - or disdains. "
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" Belarus is a closed, authoritarian system, and the theme of Chernobyl is also a closed topic. "
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" A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil. "
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" I do not remember any questions in my childhood other than questions about death and about loss, and it was clear that the books that filled the house were not as interesting as the conversations outside. "
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" The subjects I wanted to write about - the mystery of the human soul, evil - didn't interest newspapers, and news reporting bored me. "
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" I don't want to be like other authors and say that there are only a few story lines in literature. A story is like a human face. We have as many stories as human faces. You might have similar facial features, but they're all a little different. "
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" Hatred, I think, is an organism that penetrates our skin in a mythic fashion and does not leave. "
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" I grew up in a village after the war, and in the village, there were almost only women. "
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" There is this tradition, stretching back to Tacitus and Plutarch, that history belongs to the heroes, the emperors. But I grew up among simple people, and their stories just shattered me. It was painful that no one but me was listening to them. "
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" I was always meant to study the humanities; I was no good at math or sciences. When it came time for me to work, it was Soviet times, and journalism wasn't that free or interesting of a space. There was a lot of censorship; it was difficult. "
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" Putin has mobilized and gathered the desires of millions upon millions of people who have been lied to, cheated, who lost out in the new order of things - and in each of these people is a bit of Putin. They have come together to make the image we know as Putin. Putin himself is just the tip of an iceberg. "
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" My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories. "
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" Art is always kind of snooping and listening in. "
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" What is life about? Two things: love and death. "
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