2020 # 4 (42)
Sorokina V.
Svetlana Aleksievich’s Life-Writing Books and Its’ Western Critics
Abstract
After the receiving of the Nobel Prize Award the Svetlana Aleksievich’s art phenomenon undergone great attention in western critical press, which regarded her work at least in three directions: discussion of Swedish Academy of science choice; disputes about the genre nature of the writer’s texts and the establishing of her literary connections and the traditions of her work. Despite the overriding attention to the individual creativity in the Svetlana Aleksievich’s “Red Cycle”, critics consider her books as literary monuments to the voices of witnesses saved from oblivion.
Key words
life-writing, Nobel Prize Award, Russian documentary prose, polyphony, Svetlana Aleksievich