Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (New York: Random House, 2017), xxi.
“I am a historian of the soul.”

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Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (New York: Random House, 2017), xxi.
“I am a historian of the soul.”
"Hubiera sido mejor que me hubieran herido en el brazo o en la pierna, que me doliera el cuerpo. Porque el alma... duele mucho" - testimonio de Klavdia Grigórievna para Svetlana Alexiévich, La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer.
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. I’m interested in the history of the soul. The everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits, or disdains. I work with missing history. I am often told, even now, that what I write isn’t literature, it’s a document. What is literature today? Who can answer that question? We live faster than ever before. Content ruptures form. Breaks and changes it. Everything overflows its banks: music, painting – even words in documents escape the boundaries of the document. There are no borders between fact and fabrication, one flows into the other. Witnessеs are not impartial. In telling a story, humans create, they wrestle time like a sculptor does marble. They are actors and creators.
Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Lecture by Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2015
"Ahora me parece que he adquirido ciertos conocimientos, pero también es verdad que tengo muchas más preguntas y aún me faltan respuestas." - Svetlana Alexiévich, La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer.
"Creíamos que a partir de entonces en el mundo ya siempre reinaría la paz, que nadie nunca querría otra guerra, que debíamos destruir todos los proyectiles. ¿De qué iban a servir ahora? Estábamos cansados de tantos de odiar. De disparar." - testimonio de Valentina Pávlovna para Svetlana Alexiévich, La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer.
"Nadie dispara sin que haya odio en su interior." - testimonio de Valentina Pávlovna para Svetlana Alexiévich, La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer.
"Nos moríamos por la vida aún sin saber qué era la vida." - testimonio de Nina Yákovlevna para Svetlana Alexiévich, La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer.
"Todo puede transformarse en la literatura..." - Svetlana Alexiévich, La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer.