Time of second hand. 13th edition. Aleksievich S.A.

The final, fifth book of the famous artistic and documentary cycle of the Voice of the Utopia, Svetlana Aleksievich, Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature “For Multi-Feeling Creativity, a monument to suffering and the courage of our time”.

“Communism had a crazy plan,” says the author, “to remake the“ old ”person, the Old Adam. And it happened. Maybe the only thing that happened. Over seventy years, in the laboratory of Marxism-Leninism, a separate human type-Homo Soveticus. Some believe that this is a tragic character, others call him a “scoop”. It seems to me that I know this person, he is well acquainted with me, I have lived side by side with him for many years. He is me. These are my friends, friends, parents. ”

monologues included in the book, ten years were recorded on trips throughout the former Soviet Union.