Biography experience. Innocent
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Biography experience. Innocent
19.99 €
The book combines documentary prose written by father and daughter: "Experience of a Biography" by Felix Svetov and "Innocent" by Zoya Svetova?
Felix Svetov (1927-2002), a writer and dissident, in a novel banned in the USSR and first published in Paris when its author was already in prison for "anti-Soviet agitation", finds a new way to tell about his country, about the 1920s-1970s. About the execution of his father, about his childhood as the son of an "enemy of the people", about adolescence in evacuation, about youth during the "thaw", about the search for God, dissidence and about love. Forty years later, his daughter, Zoya Svetova, a journalist and human rights activist, created her own documentary story - the story of innocently convicted people and their judges, a terrifying in its clarity story about society and the judicial system of Russia.
These works are united not only by the surname, the relationship of the authors. Showing individual destinies against the backdrop of a larger history, "The Experience of a Biography" and "The Innocents" help to better understand how Russia has been structured over the past hundred years. This is a fascinating read, within which is a story about the adventures of free people in an unfree country and the possibility of consolation. It is as if the authors, father and daughter, echo and complement each other, telling a common story: about the possibility of preserving oneself under inhumane regimes and not losing hope in dark times.
Felix Svetov (1927-2002), a writer and dissident, in a novel banned in the USSR and first published in Paris when its author was already in prison for "anti-Soviet agitation", finds a new way to tell about his country, about the 1920s-1970s. About the execution of his father, about his childhood as the son of an "enemy of the people", about adolescence in evacuation, about youth during the "thaw", about the search for God, dissidence and about love. Forty years later, his daughter, Zoya Svetova, a journalist and human rights activist, created her own documentary story - the story of innocently convicted people and their judges, a terrifying in its clarity story about society and the judicial system of Russia.
These works are united not only by the surname, the relationship of the authors. Showing individual destinies against the backdrop of a larger history, "The Experience of a Biography" and "The Innocents" help to better understand how Russia has been structured over the past hundred years. This is a fascinating read, within which is a story about the adventures of free people in an unfree country and the possibility of consolation. It is as if the authors, father and daughter, echo and complement each other, telling a common story: about the possibility of preserving oneself under inhumane regimes and not losing hope in dark times.
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