The De-Voicing Of Journalism Has Reduced It To A Wasteland Of Propaganda: Svetlana Alexaevich Bears No Responsibility For Its Downfall

She Listened To Stories Of Grief, Loss, Love, Trauma, and Ordinary Life, From WW2 to Chernobyl, And Let The Voices Be The Story

“I've been searching for a literary method that would allow the closest possible approximation to real life. Reality has always attracted me like a magnet, it tortured and hypnotized me, I wanted to capture it on paper. So I immediately appropriated this genre of actual human voices and confessions, witness evidences and documents. This is how I hear an…