Svetlana Aleksievich, the Literary Journalism in Search of History. Disclosures of Russian souls in Soviet times
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In an overview of the work of the Nobel Prize for Literature Svetlana Alexievich, her extraordinary contribution to the knowledge of the mentalities and behavior of ordinary people under the rule of the Soviet empire is recorded, through an exemplary and unusual fusion of in-depth journalism, non-fiction literature and recovery of the historical memory of thousands of victims and perpetrators in a decisive period in the near past of Eurasia. Her journalistic-literary practice is compared with that of the so-called Western "New Journalism", and the journalistic values of her work are highlighted, at the time of being named Doctor Honoris Causa by the Complutense University.
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