Naked Souls
Svetlana Alexievich and the “Red Man”

Osteuropa 1-2/2018
Manfred Sapper, Anja Tippner, Volker Weichsel (Ed.)
240 pages, 20 figures
Price: 22,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-3763-2

Deutsche Fassung

Contents

• EditorialVolltext
  Ecce homo
• Karla Hielscher
  The scholar of human existence
  The life and work of Svetlana Alexievich
• Anja Tippner
  The great disappointment
  Experiences of crisis and disillusionment in Svetlana Alexievich’s texts
• Christoph Bartmann
  “Surrounded by voices”
  Alexievich’s literary monuments and the Nobel Prize
• Klaus Gestwa
  Soviet man
  The history and ambivalence surrounding a collective singular form
• Clemens Günther
  More than history
  Svetlana Alexievich’s documentary prose
• Tine Roesen
  Between the stools
  Document and fiction in Svetlana Alexievich’s work
• Only love can save people infected by anger
  An interview with Svetlana Alexievich
• Julia Obertreis
  Polyphonies on the ruins of socialism
  Svetlana Alexievich’s work from the perspective of oral history
• Ulrich Schmid
  An individual tone
  Svetlana Alexievich and Belarusian and Russian culture
• Ina Sdanevitsch
  Prominently ignored
  Svetlana Alexievich in Belarus

• Close-up view

• Nina Weller
  Polyphonic counter-narratives
  The experience and portrayal of war by Ales Adamovich, Daniil Granin and Svetlana Alexievich
• Johanna Lindbladh
  Closer to the trauma
  Svetlana Alexievich’s evolving testimony
• Andrea Zink
  Catastrophe, pain and love
  Svetlana Alexievich’s approach to Chernobyl
• Elena Gapova
  Suffering and the search for meaning
  Svetlana Alexievich’s moral revolutions
• Staffan Julén
  Productive resistance
  Filming with Svetlana Alexievich