An Inconvenient Place (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
What is a place? A place where things happened, horrible things, the traces of which have been erased? Ukraine, for a long time, has been filled with these 'inconvenient places' which embarrass everyone, no matter which side of post-Soviet memorial politics...
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What is a place? A place where things happened, horrible things, the traces of which have been erased? Ukraine, for a long time, has been filled with these 'inconvenient places' which embarrass everyone, no matter which side of post-Soviet memorial politics they stand on: crimes of Stalinism, crimes of Nazism, crimes of nationalists, crimes of Russians; the killings follow one after -another on this battered territory which aspires only to a form of peace and normality.
With the photographer Antoine d'Agata, before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Jonathan Littell began to survey Babyn Yar, the site of the 1941 massacre of the Jews of Kyiv, and the traces left on the landscape. The war came to interrupt their work. It resumed quite quickly in another form, in another place, the small sub-urban town of Bucha, which became infamous after the discovery of the atrocities perpetrated there by the Russian occupying forces. Again, a place where things happened; again, a place whose traces we erase as quickly as possible. How then to write, how to photograph when, there is literally nothing to see - or almost nothing?
With the photographer Antoine d'Agata, before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Jonathan Littell began to survey Babyn Yar, the site of the 1941 massacre of the Jews of Kyiv, and the traces left on the landscape. The war came to interrupt their work. It resumed quite quickly in another form, in another place, the small sub-urban town of Bucha, which became infamous after the discovery of the atrocities perpetrated there by the Russian occupying forces. Again, a place where things happened; again, a place whose traces we erase as quickly as possible. How then to write, how to photograph when, there is literally nothing to see - or almost nothing?
Autoren-Porträt von Jonathan Littel
Jonathan Littell was born in New York, and grew up in France. He now lives in Spain. His best-known novel, The Kindly Ones, was originally published in French in August 2006, and won the most prestigious literary prize in France, the prix Goncourt, as well as the Académie Française's Grand Prix de Littérature. He has since published books on Chechnya, Syria and Francis Bacon, as well short works and another novel. He has covered a number of conflicts, including the one in Ukraine, for Le Monde, the Guardian and the London Review of Books.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jonathan Littel
- 2024, 352 Seiten, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Charlotte Mandell
- Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
- ISBN-10: 1804271136
- ISBN-13: 9781804271131
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2024
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