![]() ![]() I suggest that by collecting personalized memories about the cataclysmic events of the Soviet period and focusing on particularly traumatic individual life stories Alexievich is constructing post-Soviet cultural memory, carving space for ‘cultural trauma’ as well as calling forth a wider social and cultural resonance. Although Alexievich’s books consist of real people’s accounts, the author has a distinct role in the text. First, I will discuss Alexievich’s art of inscribing individual voices into a polyphonic representation relating to cataclysmic events and large-scale societal transformations during the Soviet and post-Soviet era. The series comprises of more than three decades of work collecting and representing the distinct lived experiences of the fictional human type of Homo sovieticus. In this chapter I discuss Nobel laureate and Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich’s series ‘Voices from Utopia’ focusing on its fifth and last book Secondhand Time. ![]()
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