Anastasia Lysyvets's memoir Tell us about a happy life... (Skazhy
pro shchaslyve zhyttia...), published in Kyiv in 2009 and now
available for the first time in an English translation, is one of
the most powerful testimonies of a victim of the Holodomor, the
Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. This mass starvation was
organized by the Soviet regime and resulted in millions of deaths
by hunger. The simple village teacher Lysyvets's testimony, written
during the 1970s and 1980s without hope of publication, depicts
pain, death, and hunger as few others do. In his commentary,
Vitalii Ogiienko explains how traumatic traces found their way into
Lysyvets's text. He proposes that the reader develops an
alternative method of reading that replaces the usual ways of
imagining with a focus on the body and that detects mechanisms of
transmission of the original Holodomor experience through
generations.
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