Poetka. A Book of Memory. Natalia Gorbanevskaya

11 hrs. 43 min.

Language Russian

Author Ludmila Ulitskaya

Narrator Natalya Kaznacheeva

Description

Natalya Yevgenievna Gorbanevskaya is a Russian poet and translator, a human-rights activist, and a participant in the demonstration on August 25, 1968 against the introduction of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia. She is the author of about a dozen books of poetry; she translates from Polish, Czech, Slovak, and French.

The book consists of personal memories of those who knew Natalya Gorbanevskaya.

“Natasha’s biography has already been written… But this book is about something else: about the place Natalya Gorbanevskaya occupies today within the private space of everyone who knew her personally, and about what the feat of her life was not—contrary to what millions of people think—political, but purely human, something few people know. And this feat is far from being exhausted by the widely known fact that she went out onto Red Square in August 1968 to protest the introduction of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia. Small in stature—forever, in some sense, a girl—through her life she grew into a person of enormous scale, preserving a joyous childishness until the very last hour of her life.”

Lyudmila Ulitskaya