Rainbow, a book from Wanda Wasilewska, this is said at the lapel, of the book edited in 1944, Spanish version.
"Rainbow is a passionate novel that comes from the heart of Rusia. Is an impressive frame, sketched with the objectivity and sobriety of a researcher, and with the poignant strength of the artist, the pain and the sufferings of a little town in Ukraine under the terror of the hitlerianians. But is, at the same time, the novel of the rage of the nation. The earth seethe under the occupier germans feet. The flame of popular hate burn them, being locked. And they do not find means that could dampen the fire. All Teutonic brutality could not had done anything against the humble peasant which lips are tongue-tied for the love of her homeland and for the love to the unborn child she carries. In Rusia fight men, but it trees and soil fight as well. Event the silence drives crazy to the invaders.
Rainbow embody human lives, in figures of country farmers and young villagers, all that wealth of heroism, all that unlimited self-sacrifice that the nation of Rusia is putting daily against Hitler. As this incidents that are narrate in the book, Rainbow, has the vastness and the grandiose of the Greek tragedy. Is one of the best sellers in the Soviet Union, a Literature Stalin award-winning y that been sold for more that half million of copies after few months."
Found this book in a second had bookstores like a month ago, since it starts quite rudely, it took me many days to read it, is depressing, just when one thinks that misery, pain, and other worst things had been enough, the author came with something worst, I finished last week. Had been thinking along with the sufferings of many regions of that the Ukrainian people are living today.
I had several passages bookmarked, one is from the reference of the mother talked in the lapel, it figured to me, somehow related to the question Niall asked in this thread: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,37118.45.html
The mother, after recently delivered her baby, in a dark, freezing room, after being tortured by the Nazis in the freezing cold weather, at the interrogation room, did not gave up, did not said anything at all, not even when the captain threat her to kill her son in front of her, less when he killed it. She did not say anything, because it was not just about her, nor her baby, her cause was beyond her, perhaps it was not something "higher", in spiritual terms, still you have to have a lot of courage to take all of that aggression upon you, and no give up. I have been blessed with the live I have, not even in my worst nighmares, have ever take that kind of decisions, I hope I never will.
Perhaps is just a novel, but considering what we know about the brutalities of the Nazis in the second world war, it could had happend or worst as is being described in the book.
Curious, help came in the narrative, and it also changed my mood.
"Rainbow is a passionate novel that comes from the heart of Rusia. Is an impressive frame, sketched with the objectivity and sobriety of a researcher, and with the poignant strength of the artist, the pain and the sufferings of a little town in Ukraine under the terror of the hitlerianians. But is, at the same time, the novel of the rage of the nation. The earth seethe under the occupier germans feet. The flame of popular hate burn them, being locked. And they do not find means that could dampen the fire. All Teutonic brutality could not had done anything against the humble peasant which lips are tongue-tied for the love of her homeland and for the love to the unborn child she carries. In Rusia fight men, but it trees and soil fight as well. Event the silence drives crazy to the invaders.
Rainbow embody human lives, in figures of country farmers and young villagers, all that wealth of heroism, all that unlimited self-sacrifice that the nation of Rusia is putting daily against Hitler. As this incidents that are narrate in the book, Rainbow, has the vastness and the grandiose of the Greek tragedy. Is one of the best sellers in the Soviet Union, a Literature Stalin award-winning y that been sold for more that half million of copies after few months."
Found this book in a second had bookstores like a month ago, since it starts quite rudely, it took me many days to read it, is depressing, just when one thinks that misery, pain, and other worst things had been enough, the author came with something worst, I finished last week. Had been thinking along with the sufferings of many regions of that the Ukrainian people are living today.
I had several passages bookmarked, one is from the reference of the mother talked in the lapel, it figured to me, somehow related to the question Niall asked in this thread: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,37118.45.html
The mother, after recently delivered her baby, in a dark, freezing room, after being tortured by the Nazis in the freezing cold weather, at the interrogation room, did not gave up, did not said anything at all, not even when the captain threat her to kill her son in front of her, less when he killed it. She did not say anything, because it was not just about her, nor her baby, her cause was beyond her, perhaps it was not something "higher", in spiritual terms, still you have to have a lot of courage to take all of that aggression upon you, and no give up. I have been blessed with the live I have, not even in my worst nighmares, have ever take that kind of decisions, I hope I never will.
Perhaps is just a novel, but considering what we know about the brutalities of the Nazis in the second world war, it could had happend or worst as is being described in the book.
Curious, help came in the narrative, and it also changed my mood.
