Name: La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer (in Spanish)
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Author: Svetlana Alexiévich
ISBN: 9788410433588

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La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Svetlana Alexievich

Publisher

Debate

Year

2015

Language

Spanish

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9788410433588

Edited in

España

Synopsis "La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer (in Spanish)"

Casi un millón de mujeres combatió en las filas del Ejército Rojo durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pero su experiencia quedó en gran parte invisibilizada. En La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer convergen los testimonios directos de centenares de ellas: francotiradoras, conductoras de tanques y personal de hospitales de campaña, que ofrecen una mirada íntima y colectiva sobre la guerra más allá de la épica militar.

La obra indaga en preguntas esenciales sobre la transformación personal causada por la violencia y el conflicto: ¿qué les ocurrió?, ¿cómo las cambió la guerra?, ¿cómo era aprender a matar? Las voces reunidas por la autora Svetlana Alexievich relatan la suciedad, el frío, el hambre, la violencia sexual y la omnipresencia de la muerte, y restituyen una dimensión humana a hechos muchas veces silenciados. Esta edición incorpora materiales reescritos en 2002 para recuperar fragmentos censurados, preservando la fuerza testimonial y la veracidad histórica de los relatos.

Svetlana Alexievich

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Writer Svetlana Alexievich is known for her innovative narrative approach that combines oral testimony and literature to explore the major events and tragedies of the 20th and 21st centuries. Born on May 31, 1948, in Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine), Alexievich grew up in Belarus, where her family settled shortly after her birth

After studying journalism at the University of Minsk, Alexievich worked as a teacher, reporter, and editor, developing a particular interest in the individual stories of ordinary people affected by historical events. This distinctive approach led her to create a unique literary style, which she herself defines as "novels of voices"

Her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War (1983), compiled the accounts of Soviet women who participated in World War II, revealing their experiences from an intimate and previously unexplored perspective. This work, like many that followed, encountered censorship from Soviet authorities, but also received great recognition for its authenticity and depth

Other of her most influential works include Zinky Boys (1989), which addresses the experiences of Soviet soldiers in the Afghanistan war, and Voices from Chernobyl (1997), a harrowing choral account of the 1986 nuclear tragedy. These books, along with The End of the "Homo Sovieticus" (2013), have established Alexievich as one of the most important chroniclers of the post-Soviet world.

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