Bøger af Monika Zgustova

This is the story of Milena Jesenská, who many know as Kafka's friend. And yes, the months of loving and intellectual relationship with Franz Kafka marked the lives of both. Nothing was the same for Milena, she transformed. She gained confidence in herself, in her writing, in her political stance in defense of feminism and democracy, and in her daring opposition to Adolf Hitler's regime. But Milena was much more than one of Franz Kafka's most important friends. She was also a mother, journalist, translator, writer, part of the intellectual elite that met in the cafes of Vienna, along with Musil, Karl Kraus, Werfel and Hermann Broch, a member of the resistance when Nazi troops invaded her country, Czechoslovakia. Milena rebelled against the traditional order that her father wanted to impose on her, against what her husband demanded of her in her marriage, against the secondary role that was assigned to women in newspaper editorial offices and in the world. labor. She was a generous lover of men and women in rebellion against the limits imposed on love. Based on the writings, articles and letters that have been preserved from Milena and the testimonies of those who knew her, Monika Zgustova reconstructs the life of that brave and fascinating woman who was Milena Jesenská. She erects a tribute to the women who, in the turbulent and tragic years of the 1920s and 1930s, dedicated their lives to fighting for the dignity of women and victims of injustice.

"Originally published in Spanish as Un revâolver para salir de noche in 2019 by Galaxia Gutenberg, Barcelona"--Title page verso.

An aristocratic naif colludes with the Nazis, then stands up against the Gulag in this epic of riches to rags.

A poignant and unexpectedly inspirational account of women's suffering and resilience in Stalin's forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors.The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long and dark shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustová's collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the camps, but also serves as testament to the power of beauty in face of adversity. Where one would expect to find stories of hopelessness and despair, Zgustová has unearthed tales of the love, art, and friendship that persisted in times of tragedy. Across the Soviet Union, prisoners are said to have composed and memorized thousands of verses. Galya Sanova, born in a Siberian gulag, remembers reading from a hand-stitched copy of Little Red Riding Hood. Irina Emelyanova passed poems to the male prisoner she had grown to love. In this way, the arts lent an air of humanity to the women's brutal realities.These stories, collected in the vein of Svetlana Alexievich's Nobel Prize-winning oral histories, turn one of the darkest periods of the Soviet era into a song of human perseverance, in a way that reads as an intimate family history.

Not since The French Lieutenant¿s Woman has a story captured the passion and desperation of love in different historical frames.