Ales Adamovych

Khatyn (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Kozlov, Glenys; McKee, Sharon; Longman, Franes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based on previously sealed war archives and rare witness records of the survivors, Khatyn is a heart wrenching story of the people who fought for their lives under the Nazi occupation during World War II. Through the prism of the retrospect perception as narrated by the novel's main character Flyora - a boy who matures during the war - author Ales Adamovich beholds genocide and horrific crimes against humanity. The former teen partisan goes back in time and remembers atrocities of 1943. The novel's pages become the stage where perished people come to life for one last time, get to say their last word, all at the backdrop of blood chilling cries of women and children being burned alive by a Nazi death squad that, accompanied by the Vlasov's unit, surges a Belarusian village.

The first edition of Khatyn was censored and the reader outside USSR never saw the original. Forty years later Glagoslav releases the unaltered version of the novel as was the author's intent. This year Glagoslav Publications will bring more titles of Belarusian literature in English translations to the attention of wide international audience.

Today the book is part of Belarusian cultural heritage and its actuality is even more so apparent - having marked the zones of fire on the world map, the on-going blood baths have scarred the surface of our planet, begging mankind to "never again''.

Khatyn became the leading story in the screenplay of the WWII movie Come and See which was co-written by Ales Adamovich.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Glagoslav Publications B.V. (N)
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781909156098
• Artikelnr.: 38372177

Autorenporträt

Known for his straightforward character, Ales Adamovich (1927-1994), an award winning Belarusian author, screenwriter and literary critic, was an active public figure and teacher in the former Soviet Union where he wrote his most influential war novel Khatyn. During WWII he fought as a partisan; this experience became the basis for Khatyn. After WWII he went on to receive his PhD in philology from Belarusian State University and also took graduate courses in directing and screenwriting at the prestigious Moscow film school VKSR. Adamovich was a professor and a member of the Belorussian Academy of Sciences. As a result of refusing to testify against his colleagues and to sign letters condemning political dissidents he was barred from teaching at Moscow State University. However, he was a member of many public and professional unions. In 1989 he was one of the first writers to join the Belorussian PEN Center, and in 1994 the Center instituted the Ales Adamovich Literary Prize. Ales Adamovich's works are still read widely and his legacy continues to be an important milestone in Belorussian history. His fiction and non-fiction titles make a profound case against the necessity of war, and are a testament to the kind of knowledge and wisdom being vastly sought after today. Awards: Award for Honor and Dignity of Talent, 1997 (posthumous) Order of the Red Banner, 1987 Order of the Patriotic War, 1985 Gold Medal of Alexander Fadeyev, 1983 Order of the Badge of Honor, 1977 Yakub Kolas Belorussian State Prize, 1976 (For Khatyn) Ministry of Defense Prize, 1974 (For Khatyn) Friendship Literary Prize, 1972 Partisan Medal, 1946