Second Hand Time Reading Notes

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April 14, 2021 First reading of the preamble

Second-Hand Time is the White Russian writer SA Alexievich (in fact I don't often remember the writer's name), and the translator is Lunins. The book was first printed in 2016 and is not a recent new book. I learned about the author from reading Canoe March's recommended book list, and the author's narrative style is based on what he has experienced into a novel, and the authenticity of the novel is highly restored. I checked the writer's Baidu Encyclopedia -

【The following is excerpted from Baidu Encyclopedia】

Svetlana Alexandravna Alexievich (1948-), also known as S.A. Alexievich, is a Belarusian writer and journalist. [1]

Born in 1948 in Ukraine, the former Soviet Union, Stanislav. Graduated from Belarusian State University in 1972. In 1984, he published the documentary literature "No Woman in War". In 1985, he published the documentary "I Still Miss You, Mom". In 1989, he published the documentary literature "Zinc Skin Baby Soldier". In 1998, he won the Leipzig Book Prize in Germany. In 2014, he was made a Chevalier des Lettres des Arts et des Arts et Desists. In October 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. [1]

Another identity of most literary scholars is that of journalists, and it is not unreasonable that the rich knowledge of journalists provides more diverse material for novels. In addition, the author was born in 48 years, and experienced the whereabouts of communism after the soviet split in "Second-Hand Time", which is also the main central idea of "Second-hand Time".

After bidding farewell to the Soviet era, communism also broke down. At this time, there was a group of people left behind, the Soviets, some of whom called them "Soviets", who had socialist genes and were incompatible with other human beings.

The author prefers the small people in life to the depiction of the big ones, and history cares about facts, while emotions are excluded. The book selects many suicidal people—for the ideals, for the country, for the great communism. Russians are in the flesh and blood for war, for flags, for tight drums, the blood is excited, people love their servility.

Then after the Reformation, the opening of the historical archives, the people learned about the history that had been concealed, and people read newspapers and magazines silently. Many see truth as an enemy, and freedom as an enemy.

Dividing the Soviets into the Stalin era, the Khrushchev era, the Brezylev era, and the Gorbachev era, the author belongs to the last generation, which experienced the rise of romanticism and utopia and easily accepted the collapse of communism. Everyone loves freedom and pursues freedom, and then when freedom comes, no one is ready.

The fight for the ideal began with a "Chekov-like" life, and people have only lived throughout history.

A dialogue between father and son separates the characteristics of two eras:

Father: Freedom is the removal of fear; Son: Freedom is love;

More than twenty years have passed, and now there is a return to the yearning for the Soviet Union, the worship of Stalin, the Soviet Union has become fashionable again, all after learning and experiencing capitalism...

But do these people really know what communism is?