{"product_id":"sonechka","title":"Sonechka","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"396\"\u003eThe Russian soul slips through our fingers. We see only the lightest grains. Those that float. The Empire, the Tsars, Communism, Utopia, Cruelty, Violence, Authoritarianism. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"396\"\u003eThe sieve of the press and journalism is not fine enough to reveal it (nor is that of History). Literature is needed. Text after text, the abyss of a sense of Dread that does not dissipate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe finest grain of the \"Russian soul\" settles and, sedimented through the centuries, petrifies, becoming invisible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"396\" style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e« We swim on the surface of a crystal-clear lake, ignoring the sand, the earth, and the mud that imprison the waters. »\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"396\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eLudmila Ulitskaya is my mother's age. What she writes belongs to a generation. It is not the past. It is today. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"396\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSonetchka\u003c\/strong\u003e, published over the ashes of the Soviet collapse, shows us the cruelty that props up a fundamental pillar of the \"Russian soul\". One that never crumbled. The \"Russian woman\", silent, self-sacrificing, devoted, a master of the art of disappearing. Irony and melancholy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"396\"\u003eIn the lucidity of the writing, the accusation: suffering is not a virtue. Can submission be heroism? With a large dose of cowardice, yes - says the Enlightenment thinker: pure stupidity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1208\" data-end=\"1535\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1208\" data-end=\"1229\"\u003eLudmila Ulitskaya\u003c\/strong\u003e, born in 1943, is one of the great dissident voices of contemporary Russian literature. A former biologist and fierce critic of authoritarianism, she writes against the national myth of moral obedience. She dismantles, without fury, the archetype of the woman-symbol. Serenely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1208\" data-end=\"1535\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eThis is why it is important (the book, the author): It is necessary to understand Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavalo de Ferro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51438735720714,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/Capa-Sonechka-scaled.jpg?v=1751527952","url":"https:\/\/www.malditalivraria.com\/en\/products\/sonechka","provider":"Maldita Livraria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}