![]() ![]() The catastrophe, which creates a threat – and simultaneously, an attraction, an unreal object of desire – is terrifying and at the same time ridiculous. The emergence of different languages reflects the possible ways of perceiving posttraumatic reality and creating postcatastrophic discourse. Interviews with victims of the catastrophe carried out by the author confirm the existence of a specific, collective “imaginarium” of the conceptual realm, where the process of fantasizing actuates discourse, both metaphysical-apocalyptic and other, and also evokes the aestheticization of the disaster, as well as irony. However, the inability to represent traumatic experience does not mean falling into silence. ![]() While officials tried to hush up the accident. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. ![]() In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. The paper presents the posttraumatic reality as an inexpressible experience that cannot be explained or described. Alexievich won a Nobel Prize - Craig Mazin, creator of the HBO / Sky TV series Chernobyl. Summary/Abstract: Svetlana Alexievich’s Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future is a collection of narratives created after the catastrophe at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. ![]() Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego Keywords: Alexievich Svetlana Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future Chernobyl disaster trauma Kronika przyszłości Swietłany Aleksijewicz: konflikt postkatastroficznych narracjiĬhernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future Conflict in Postcatastrophic Narrations Author(s): Anna Karonta ![]()
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