Secondhand Time

基本信息

Paperback: 496 pages

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (March 21, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780399588822

ISBN-13: 978-0399588822

Product Dimensions: 142 x 203 x 30mm | 386g

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

★紐約時報暢銷書

★《華盛頓郵報》、《出版人週刊》、《紐約時報》、《華盛頓郵報》、《波士頓環球報》、《華爾街日報》、美國國家公共電台、英國《金融時報》、柯爾科斯評論年度十佳圖書之一

★2015年度諾貝爾文學獎得主阿列克謝耶維奇具有分量的作品

★追溯蘇聯和蘇聯解體之後的歷史過程，讓普通的小人物講述他們自己的故事

本書是白俄羅斯著名作家阿列克謝耶維奇的作品，通過口述採訪的形式，展現身處關鍵歷史時刻的普通人的生活。本書講述了蘇聯解體後，1991年到2012年二十年間的痛苦的社會轉型中，俄羅斯普通人的生活，為夢想破碎付出的代價。在書中，從學者到清潔工，每個人都在重新尋找生活的意義。他們的真實講述同時從宏觀和微觀上呈現出一個重大的時代，一個社會的變動，為這一段影響深遠的歷史賦予了人性的面孔。蘇聯解體已逾二十年，俄羅斯人重新發現了世界，世界也重新認識了俄羅斯。新一代已經成長起來，他們的夢想已不再關乎夢想，不再像90年代他們的父輩，關心信仰。二十年來，人們看了嶄新的俄羅斯，但她卻早已不是任何人曾經夢想過的俄羅斯了。作者追溯了蘇聯和蘇聯解體之後的歷史過程，讓普通的小人物講述他們自己的故事，從而展現出身處歷史的轉折，以及人們如何追尋信仰、夢想，如何訴説祕密和恐懼，讓人們重新思考什麼是“俄羅斯”和“俄羅斯人”，為什麼他們無法適應急劇的現代化，為什麼再近兩百年之後，依然與歐洲相隔。本書分為上下兩部分，採訪了生長於理想之下的俄羅斯人和今天的俄羅斯人，以及阿塞拜疆等前蘇聯國家的普通人，呈現他們的生活細節，所感所想。德國媒體盛讚該書擷取的是*為細小的馬賽克，卻拼出了一幅完整的後蘇聯時代圖景。“一部20世紀後半葉的微觀俄國史，筆力直抵普京時代。”

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ● A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ● LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY 

The New York Times ● The Washington Post ● The Boston Globe ● The Wall Street Journal ● NPR ● Financial Times ● Kirkus Reviews

When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions—a history of the soul.” Alexievich’s distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, records the stories of ordinary women and men who are rarely given the opportunity to speak, whose experiences are often lost in the official histories of the nation.

In Secondhand Time, Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism. Everyday Russian citizens recount the past thirty years, showing us what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and what it’s like to live in the new Russia left in its wake. Through interviews spanning 1991 to 2012, Alexievich takes us behind the propaganda and contrived media accounts, giving us a panoramic portrait of contemporary Russia and Russians who still carry memories of oppression, terror, famine, massacres—but also of pride in their country, hope for the future, and a belief that everyone was working and fighting together to bring about a utopia. Here is an account of life in the aftermath of an idea so powerful it once dominated a third of the world.

A magnificent tapestry of the sorrows and triumphs of the human spirit woven by a master, Secondhand Time tells the stories that together make up the true history of a nation. “Through the voices of those who confided in her,” The Nation writes, “Alexievich tells us about human nature, about our dreams, our choices, about good and evil—in a word, about ourselves.”

Praise for Svetlana Alexievich and Secondhand Time

“The nonfiction volume that has done the most to deepen the emotional understanding of Russia during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union of late is Svetlana Alexievich’s oral history Secondhand Time.”—David Remnick, The New Yorker

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“There are many worthwhile books on the post-Soviet period and Putin’s ascent. . . . But the nonfiction volume that has done the most to deepen the emotional understanding of Russia during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union of late is Svetlana Alexievich’s oral history Secondhand Time.”—David Remnick, The New Yorker

“Like the greatest works of fiction, Secondhand Time is a comprehensive and unflinching exploration of the human condition. . . . Alexievich’s tools are different from those of a novelist, yet in its scope and wisdom, Secondhand Time is comparable to War and Peace.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Already hailed as a masterpiece across Europe, Secondhand Time is an intimate portrait of a country yearning for meaning after the sudden lurch from Communism to capitalism in the 1990s plunged it into existential crisis. A series of monologues by people across the former Soviet empire, it is Tolstoyan in scope, driven by the idea that history is made not only by major players but also by ordinary people talking in their kitchens.”—The New York Times

“The most ambitious Russian literary work of art of the century . . . There’s been nothing in Russian literature as great or personal or troubling as Secondhand Time since Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, nothing as necessary and overdue. . . . Alexievich’s witnesses are those who haven’t had a say. She shows us from these conversations, many of them coming at the confessional kitchen table of Russian apartments, that it’s powerful simply to be allowed to tell one’s own story. . . . This is the kind of history, otherwise almost unacknowledged by today’s dictatorships, that matters.”—The Christian Science Monitor

“Alexievich’s masterpiece—not only for what it says about the fall of the Soviet Union but for what it suggests about the future of Russia and its former satellites. . . Stylistically, Secondhand Time, like her other books, produces a mosaic of overlapping voices… deepened by extraordinary stories of love and perseverance.”—Newsweek

“A trove of emotions and memories, raw and powerful . . . [Secondhand Time] is one of the most vivid and incandescent accounts of [Soviet] society caught in the throes of change that anyone has yet attempted. . . . Alexievich stations herself at a crossroads of history and turns on her tape recorder. . . . [She] makes it feel intimate, as if you are sitting in the kitchen with the characters, sharing in their happiness and agony.”—The Washington Post

“An enormous investigation of the generation that saw communism fall, [Secondhand Time] gives a staggeringly deep and plural picture of a people that has lost its place in history.”—San Francisco Chronicle

作者簡介

斯韋特蘭娜·亞歷山德羅夫娜·阿列克謝耶維奇，1948年出生的阿列克謝耶維奇，畢業於明斯克大學新聞學系。她用與當事人訪談的方式寫作紀實文學，記錄了二次世界大戰、阿富汗戰爭、蘇聯解體、切爾諾貝利事故等人類歷史上重大的事件。

曾多次獲獎，包括瑞典筆會獎（1996）、德國萊比錫圖書獎（1998）、法國“世界見證人”獎（1999）、美國國家書評人獎（2005）、德國書業和平獎（2013）等。

獲得2015年諾貝爾文學獎。目前其作品已在全世界被翻譯成35種文字，並創作有21部紀錄片腳本和3部戲劇（曾在法國、德國、保加利亞演出）。

Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, in 1948 and has spent most of her life in the Soviet Union and present-day Belarus, with prolonged periods of exile in Western Europe. Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own nonfiction genre, which gathers a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Her works include The Unwomanly Face of War (1985), Last Witnesses (1985), Zinky Boys (1990), Voices from Chernobyl (1997), and Secondhand Time (2013). She has won many international awards, including the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”