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Voices from Chernobyl
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disasternote known outside the US as Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future is a collection of first person accounts of the ongoing effects of the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, compiled by Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich. It was first published in Russian in 1997, eleven years after the accident.The accounts were collected over three years from hundreds of survivors of the disaster—including the relatives of first responders, evacuees from Pripyat and the Exclusion Zone, liquidators conscripted to help with the cleanup, and re-settlers who returned to live on the contaminated land. They are presented as "monologues," minimally edited, with occasional notes from the author in the style of stage directions. Some chapters consist of quotes from multiple subjects, interspersed, but all are credited by name except where they request otherwise.The book won the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award (for the English translation) and was a major factor in Alexievich's reception of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015. | |
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Title Drop: Averted in the American version. The original title, Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future, appears in two parts near the end of the book: the last account contains the line, "I'll read my Chernobyl prayer in a whisper," and the last line in Alexievich's epilogue is "I felt like I was recording the future." | |
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Conditioned to Accept Horror | |
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Conditioned to Accept Horror: Many of the survivors describe death as a mundane, normal part of life in the wake of the diasaster. | |
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End of an Age: One of the interviews mourns the collapse of the Soviet Union (which Chernobyl precipitated) as this. | |
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Speech-Centric Work: The book is composed of verbatim interviews with its subjects, presented as "monologues." | |
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Death of a Child | |
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Death of a Child: Some of the most heartwrenching accounts describe the deaths of the subjects' children from consequences of radiation exposure. Lyudmilla Ignatenko's daughter dies four hours after being born, having absorbed a lethal dose of radiation in the womb. Nikolai Kalugin describes his six-year-old daughter's death of acute radiation syndrome. One liquidator relates that he kept his contaminated hat after returning home and gave it to his young son, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor two years later. It is not stated whether he survived. | |
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Polluted Wasteland: The Exclusion Zone (and many areas outside of it) are contaminated with lethal levels of radioactive fallout from the reactor, which is concentrated in plants and animals. | |
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Poisonous Person: Lyudmilla was told by nurses not to touch or even get close to her husband after he had been irradiated because he could damage her. | |
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Nightmare Fetishist: One woman describes an artist she dated and broke up with after realizing from the invasive questions he asked that he was only interested in her because of her association with Chernobyl. | |
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After the End | |
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After the End: The re-settlers describe the Exclusion Zone as a post-apocalyptic environment. Many express a feeling of having survived something that should have been unsurvivable. | |
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Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You | |
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Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You: While the cameraman is on his way back from a trip through another region of the Zone when he overhears people talking about his own supposed death at the reactor. | |
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Canary in a Coal Mine | |
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Canary in a Coal Mine: One re-settler learned to identify habitable areas by the presence of birds, indicating the radiation levels were not deadly. | |
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Suffering Builds Character: The cameraman explains the Soviet ethos that valorized suffering: | |
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Designated Hero | |
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Designated Hero: invoked Invoked. Multiple accounts describe the process of creating "heroes" in the Soviet Union as arbitrary and exploitative—the hero is whoever happens to be in the right place to take care of a problem that could kill them. The cameraman notes that "Everywhere you went, people would say, 'Ah, movie people. Hold on, we'll find you some heroes.' And they'd produce an old man and his grandson who spent two days chasing cows off from right near Chernobyl." | |
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Nuclear Mutant | |
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Nuclear Mutant: Discussed. One account describes a cameraman who came to the Zone hoping to see "a three-headed boar," and another recalls rumors of birds with multiple heads. | |
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Inescapable Horror | |
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Inescapable Horror: The radiation became embedded in everything in the Exclusion Zone. | |
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What a Senseless Waste of Human Life | |
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What a Senseless Waste of Human Life: Some of the liquidators express disgust and fury at how the disaster was handled, having been sent effectively to their deaths during the cleanup effort. | |
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Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure | |
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Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure: A former Pripyat resident remembers that people began comparing the disaster to Hiroshima as soon as they learned about it. | |
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Hope Sprouts Eternal | |
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Hope Sprouts Eternal: Discussed in variation. The cameraman has this reaction to spotting a living stork in the Exclusion Zone: | |
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Bambification | |
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Bambification: One of the liquidators tasked with exterminating contaminated animals says that they wouldn't kill deer because they had "expressive eyes." | |
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Invisible Monsters | |
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Invisible Monsters: The radiation itself. Many are skeptical of the danger it poses, since they cannot see it. This is discussed in "Monologue About What Radiation Looks Like." | |
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The Power of Language | |
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The Power of Language: Many survivors claim they have difficulty putting their experiences into words at all, as though there were no language to capture what they had seen. One particularly philosophical subject expresses this explicitly: In the epilogue, Alexievich shares her belief that the Zone itself is "more powerful than anything literature has to say." | |
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Mother Russia Makes You Strong | |
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Mother Russia Makes You Strong: This ethos is strongly present in the "Soldiers' Chorus"—many go into detail on the culture of service to one's country, as well as the politics of masculinity, that influenced liquidators to join the monumental cleanup effort. | |
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You Cannot Grasp the True Form | |
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You Cannot Grasp the True Form: A frequent refrain throughout the accounts is the sense that these people had witnessed something beyond human comprehension and horrible beyond words. | |
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Forbidden Zone | |
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Forbidden Zone: Many of the interviewees continue to live in the 2,600 square kilometre Exclusion Zone, despite attempts by soldiers to keep them out. | |
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Gallows Humor: Over and over, interviewees tell macabre jokes about Chernobyl, usually centering on radiation and death. One recalls an apple-seller quipping that even if her apples were poisonous, people would buy them for their bosses or mothers-in-law. | |
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Was Once a Man | |
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Was Once a Man: Lyudmilla recalls the nurses saying this about Vasily after his exposure to extreme radiation, even calling him "a nuclear reactor." | |
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