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Svetlana Aleksándrovna Aleksiévich[1]​ o Svetlana Alexándrovna Alexiévich[1]​ ; Stanislav, Ucrania soviética, Unión Soviética, 31 de mayo de 1948 es una escritora y periodista bielorrusa de lengua rusa, galardonada con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2015.[2]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 31. mayo 1948  •  Otros nombres Světlana Aleksijevič
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Svetlana Aleksiévich Frases y Citas

“El sufrimiento es nuestra capital, nuestro recurso natural. No el petróleo o el gas, sino el sufrimiento. Es la única cosa que somos capaces de producir consistentemente. Siempre estoy buscando la respuesta: ¿por qué nuestro sufrimiento no se convierte en libertad? ¿Es realmente todo en vano? Chaadayev tenía razón: Rusia es un país sin memoria, es un espacio de amnesia total, una conciencia virgen para la crítica y la reflexión.”

Svetlana Aleksiévich

Cita original en inglés:«Suffering is our capital, our natural resource. Not oil or gas – but suffering. It is the only thing we are able to produce consistently. I'm always looking for the answer: why doesn't our suffering convert into freedom? Is it truly all in vain? Chaadayev was right: Russia is a country without memory, it's a space of total amnesia, a virgin consciousness for criticism and reflection».
Fuente: Discurso en la ceremonia del Premio Nobel de Literatura 2015.

Svetlana Aleksiévich: Frases en inglés

“What can art accomplish? The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.”

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Svetlana Alexievich

Speech at the Nobel Banquet https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2015/alexievich-speech_en.html (10 December 2015)

“I will take the liberty of saying that we missed the chance we had in the 1990s. The question was posed: what kind of country should we have? A strong country, or a worthy one where people can live decently? We chose the former – a strong country. Once again we are living in an era of power. Russians are fighting Ukrainians. Their brothers. My father is Belarusian, my mother, Ukrainian. That's the way it is for many people. Russian planes are bombing Syria … A time full of hope has been replaced by a time of fear. The era has turned around and headed back in time. The time we live in now is second-hand … Sometimes I am not sure that I've finished writing the history of the "Red" man.”

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Svetlana Alexievich

Nobel Lecture (2015)

“I used to think I could understand everything and express everything. Or almost everything. I remember when I was writing my book about the war in Afghanistan, Zinky Boys, I went to Afghanistan and they showed me some of the foreign weapons that had been captured from the Afghan fighters. I was amazed at how perfect their forms were, how perfectly a human thought had been expressed. There was an officer standing next to me and he said, "If someone were to step on this Italian mine that you say is so pretty it looks like a Christmas decoration, there would be nothing left of them but a bucket of meat. You'd have to scrape them off the ground with a spoon." When I sat down to write this, it was the first time I thought, "Is this something I should say?" I had been raised on great Russian literature, I thought you could go very very far, and so I wrote about that meat. But the Zone—it's a separate world, a world within the rest of the world—and it's more powerful than anything literature has to say.”

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Svetlana Alexievich libro Voices from Chernobyl

Fuente: Voices from Chernobyl (2005), pp. 239–240

“Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone—the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.”

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Svetlana Alexievich libro Voices from Chernobyl

Fuente: Voices from Chernobyl (2005), p. 27

“My teacher, Ales Adamovich, whose name I mention today with gratitude, felt that writing prose about the nightmares of the 20th century was sacrilege. Nothing may be invented. You must give the truth as it is. A "super-literature" is required. The witness must speak. Nietzsche's words come to mind – no artist can live up to reality. He can't lift it. It always troubled me that the truth doesn't fit into one heart, into one mind, that truth is somehow splintered. There's a lot of it, it is varied, and it is strewn about the world.”

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Svetlana Alexievich

Quotes from Nobel Lecture

“Suffering is our capital, our natural resource. Not oil or gas – but suffering. It is the only thing we are able to produce consistently. I'm always looking for the answer: why doesn't our suffering convert into freedom? Is it truly all in vain? Chaadayev was right: Russia is a country without memory, it's a space of total amnesia, a virgin consciousness for criticism and reflection.”

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Svetlana Alexievich

Quotes from Nobel Lecture

“I drove to a hospital for Afghan civilians with a group of nurses – we brought presents for the children. Toys, candy, cookies. I had about five teddy bears. We arrived at the hospital, a long barracks. No one has more than a blanket for bedding. A young Afghan woman approached me, holding a child in her arms. She wanted to say something – over the last ten years almost everyone here has learned to speak a little Russian – and I handed the child a toy, which he took with his teeth. "Why his teeth?" I asked in surprise. She pulled the blanket off his tiny body – the little boy was missing both arms. "It was when your Russians bombed."”

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Svetlana Alexievich

Someone held me up as I began to fall.
Nobel Lecture (2015)

“Is there anything more frightening than people?”

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Svetlana Alexievich libro Voices from Chernobyl

Fuente: Voices from Chernobyl (2005), p. 60

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