33 books for another Belarus

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Нетутэйшыя: Reversion

For Belarusian literature, the 1990s were a time of liberation from the rigid corset of the Soviet literary tradition, in which only certain themes and forms were permitted. In the transition period, new forms and unusual combinations of genres proli... More

Svetlana Alexievich

The Unwomanly Face of War

Svetlana Alexievich's documentary text, written in 1983 and published in Russian in the Soviet Union in 1985, is about women who fought in the Red Army during the Second World War but who have not become part of the collective memory. They tell the a... More

Zbych Slupoŭsky

Kinship

Kinship (satire novel) The novel's characters are part of multiple generations that go through upheavals and catastrophes throughout history: Revolution, collectivisation, war, collaboration, the Holocaust, moving out of the villages into the... More

Hanna Sieviaryniec

"Soviet Belarus" under the Direction of Michasj Tscharot (non-fiction)

This book was written as a result of many years of research and archival work, which addressed the following questions: What stages does the history of the most important Soviet Belarusian-language newspaper "Soviet Belarus" cover, from its cr... More

Aliaxey Talstou

Errors and Gaps

In his book Errors and Gaps, Aliaxey Talstou deals with the big issues of the present: the connection between information technologies and human consciousness, the instrumentalisation of history by authoritarian regimes, the effects of capitalism.... More

Julia Autz

While I was waiting (2017-2019)

Alexander Lukashenko has ruled Belarus for almost 30 years. A generation has grown up that does not know its homeland without the authoritarian president. What does it mean to grow up under these circumstances? What is it like to live in a country wh... More

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