by Svetlana Aleksiévich · ACANTILADO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416011841
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«El fin del "Homo sovieticus"» is the historical essay by Svetlana Aleksiévich, published by Acantilado in paperback (656 pages, in Spanish).
With her recorder, Svetlana Aleksiévich gathers testimonies from those who lived through the USSR and its collapse: deported mothers, loyal Stalinists despite the Gulag, perestroika enthusiasts bewildered by capitalism. The author portrays the 'Homo sovieticus', the man created by Marxism-Leninism, in a polyphony of voices.
Volume 324 of the El Acantilado collection. Translated from the Russian by Jorge Ferrer Díaz. First edition published in 2015.
A work of interest for readers of historical essays, memoirs and testimonies about the Soviet Union and its legacy.
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". She is the first writer from Belarus to receive the award.
