Produkt
KlappentextAnastasia Lysyvets's memoir Tell us about a happy life... (Skazhy pro shchaslyve zhyttia...), published in Kyiv in 2009 and now available for the first time in an English translation, is one of the most powerful testimonies of a victim of the Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. This mass starvation was organized by the Soviet regime and resulted in millions of deaths by hunger. The simple village teacher Lysyvets's testimony, written during the 1970s and 1980s without hope of publication, depicts pain, death, and hunger as few others do. In his commentary, Vitalii Ogiienko explains how traumatic traces found their way into Lysyvets's text. He proposes that the reader develops an alternative method of reading that replaces the usual ways of imagining with a focus on the body and that detects mechanisms of transmission of the original Holodomor experience through generations.
ZusatztextAnastasia Lysyvets has produced a remarkable account of the everyday experience of the Holodomor. Her unembellished, direct, and descriptive prose draws readers into the lives of Ukrainian peasants trapped in a frightful world. We feel their anguish and empathize with their plight as much as we despair at their powerlessness. -Alexander J. Motyl, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-8382-1616-4
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum22.03.2022
AuflageAuflage
ReiheUkrainian Voices
Reihen-Nr.25
Seiten178 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht233 g
Artikel-Nr.50396044
Rubriken
GenreGeschichte/Politik