An Inconvenient Place [electronic resource]
Jonathan Littel2024
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What is a place? A place where things happened, horrible things, the traces of
which have been erased? Ukraine, for a long time, has been filled with these
'inconvenient places' which embarrass everyone, no matter which side of
post-Soviet memorial politics they stand on: crimes of Stalinism, crimes of
Nazism, crimes of nationalists, crimes of Russians; the killings follow one
after another on this battered territory which aspires only to a form of peace
and normality. With the photographer Antoine d'Agata, before the Russian
invasion of Ukraine, Jonathan Littell began to survey Babyn Yar, the site of the
1941 massacre of the Jews of Kyiv, and the traces left on the landscape. The war
came to interrupt their work. It resumed quite quickly in another form, in
another place, the small suburban town of Bucha, which became infamous after the
discovery of the atrocities perpetrated there by the Russian occupying forces.
Again, a place where things happened; again, a place who...
Main title:
An Inconvenient Place [electronic resource] / Jonathan Littel
Author:
Jonathan Littel, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (352 pages, 2.9587275E7 Bytes,)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781804271131
Language:
English
BRN:
531726
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