Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide

Arnaldo Ageno — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 17:31:24 +0000

Since the first atomic bomb was dropped, humankind has been haunted by the idea of nuclear apocalypse. That nightmare almost became reality in 1986, when an accident at the USSR’s Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant triggered the world’s worst radiological crisis. The events of that night are well documented – but history didn’t stop there.

Chernobyl, as a place, remains very much alive today. In Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide, researcher Darmon Richter journeys into the contemporary Exclusion Zone, venturing deeper than any previously published account. While thousands of foreign visitors congregate around a handful of curated sites, beyond the tourist hotspots lies a wild and mysterious land the size of a small country.

In the forests of Chernobyl, historic village settlements and Soviet-era utopianism have lain abandoned since the time of the disaster – overshadowed by vast, unearthly mega-structures designed to win the Cold War. Richter combines photographs of discoveries made during his numerous visits to the Zone with the voices of those who witnessed history – engineers, scientists, police and evacuees. He explores evacuated regions in both Ukraine and Belarus, finding forgotten ghost towns and Soviet monuments lost deep in irradiated forests.

He gains exclusive access inside the most secure areas of the power plant itself, and joins the ‘stalkers’ of Chernobyl as he sets out on a high-stakes illegal hike to the heart of the Exclusion Zone.

Cernobyl’skaja molitva. Chronika buduscego Чернобыльская молитва. Хроника будущего Preghiera per Cernobyl’

Arnaldo Ageno — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 20:42:24 +0000

Главной техногенной катастрофе XX века посвящена четвертая книга знаменитого художественно-документального цикла “Голоса Утопии” Светланы Алексиевич, лауреата Нобелевской премии по литературе 2015 года “за многоголосное творчество — памятник страданию и мужеству в наше время”.
“Совпали две катастрофы: космическая — Чернобыль, и социальная — ушел под воду огромный социалистический материк. И это, второе крушение, затмило космическое, потому что оно нам ближе и понятнее. То, что случилось в Чернобыле, — впервые на земле, и мы — первые люди, пережившие это”.
Чернобыльская молитва публикуется в новой авторской редакции — книга увеличилась на треть из-за восстановленных фрагментов, исключенных из прежних изданий по цензурным соображениям.
«Questo libro non parla di Cernobyl’ in quanto tale, ma del suo mondo. Proprio di ciò che conosciamo meno. O quasi per niente. A interessarmi non era l’avvenimento in sé, vale a dire cosa era successo e per colpa di chi, bensì le impressioni, i sentimenti delle persone che hanno toccato con mano l’ignoto. Il mistero. Cernobyl’ è un mistero che dobbiamo ancora risolvere… Questa è la ricostruzione non degli avvenimenti, ma dei sentimenti. Per tre anni ho viaggiato e fatto domande a persone di professioni, destini, generazioni e temperamenti diversi. Credenti e atei. Contadini e intellettuali. Cernobyl’ è il principale contenuto del loro mondo. Esso ha avvelenato ogni cosa che hanno dentro, e anche attorno, e non solo l’acqua e la terra. Tutto il loro tempo. Questi uomini e queste donne sono stati i primi a vedere ciò che noi possiamo soltanto supporre… Più di una volta ho avuto l’impressione che in realtà io stessi annotando il futuro». (Svetlana Aleksievic)

Cernobyl’ – Globolibri.it

Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide

Cernobyl’skaja molitva. Chronika buduscego Чернобыльская молитва. Хроника будущего Preghiera per Cernobyl’