Dictaphone
- ID-nummer
- 2015.024.001
- Titel
- Dictaphone
- Objektkategori
- Media
- Publik beskrivning
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Dictaphones have been important to Svetlana Alexievich's literary process. Her documentary novels are based on large numbers of interviews. This dictaphone was used when collecting material for the books Zinky Boys and Voices from Chernobyl. The tapes contain some of the many interviews.
In her Nobel Prize lecture Alexievich said,
“It always troubled me that the truth doesn’t fit into one heart, into one mind, that truth is somehow splintered. There’s a lot of it, it is varied, and it is strewn about the world. Dostoevsky thought that humanity knows much, much more about itself than it has recorded in literature. So, what is it that I do? I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time.”
Svetlana Alexievich donated the dictaphone and the tapes to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2015. - Pristagare
- Svetlana Alexievich
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