We must contemplate the secret of Homeric creativity in the epic narrative. So Homer does not care about telling only what happened in his epic “The Iliad,” but he is more interested in presenting the context of what happened and depicting the world in which this event occurred. We find events covering the universe from above Mount Olympus - the snowy sky - to the depths of the raging sea and the burning forests, and even the depths of the human soul itself in all its conditions, whether good or bad.
The events also cover gods, humans, the animal kingdom and birds. So we are dealing with a depiction of a universal existential situation, not a passing individual event. We are faced with an integrated system in which all the features and various components of living things and things interact, so that in the end we obtain a poetic exploration of the universe and its working system.
Russia witnessed several revolutions, unrest, and bloody civil wars at the beginning of the twentieth century, resulting in the emergence of the Soviet Union, which formed an image of the great and invincible empire.
Some saw in it the fulfillment of the red socialist dream of building a superpower whose influence extended over almost half the world. While some saw it as one of the harshest forms of oppressive totalitarian rule, with huge detention centers and a difficult economic situation.
In the year 1991, this empire collapsed rapidly after several revolutions, unrest, and bloody civil wars, and the red man woke up to suddenly find himself living in the ruins of an empire collapsing into dozens of conflicting countries, witnessing a massive economic collapse and the end of the great dreams he had lived.
In her book, Svetlana does not search for answers to the big questions that interest the reader of history, but rather for thousands of small details of past daily life by collecting dozens of testimonies from ordinary people who lived this experience and its ups and downs.
Svetlana searches for the small night conversations that disappear with the morning, for the dream of a new future, of another time. However, it is the same time repeated; Used time..
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