According to Nicolai Lilin’s superior in the Russian army, the first Chechen War was ‘just a cover for the trafficking run by the corrupt people in the government’. This is one of the few slivers of opinion, political or otherwise, framing this pitiless account of the second conflict by Lilin, an elite sniper who admits it was essential he remained scared to retain his sanity.
This extraordinary memoir plunges us back into the carnage of the last decade’s Second Chechen War. After a brutal Siberian education, Nicolai Lilin is called up as a sniper in the Russian army, fighting among the ruins of the Soviet empire.
Books Briefly Noted – The New Yorker – June 13 & 20, 2011
With its exhaustive descriptions of ritual and tradition, “Siberian Education” at times resembles a work of cultural anthropology.
Siberia is, suddenly, hot. This has nothing to do with climate change, but is rather the result of a concerted burst of literary interest in a place that has traditionally been exiled to Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s oeuvre, or used as the standby metaphor for “frozen backwater.”
A Objectiva editou «Educação Siberiana», de Nicolai Lilin, uma obra que desvenda uma comunidade de criminosos siberianos que dão pelo nome de Urca, que foram deportados por Estaline para a Transnistria.
Kiehtova ja mukaansatempaava muotokuva gangstereiden asuttamasta armottomasta maailmasta.
Nicolai Lilin varttui entisen Neuvostoliiton alueella sijaitsevassa Transnistriassa. Vahvasti omaelämäkerrallisessa esikoisromaanissaan Lilin kertoo lapsuudestaan ja nuoruudestaan urca-yhteisössä Dnestrin alajuoksulla.
A denúncia da opressão foi um tema forte na literatura produzida na finada União Soviética. O dissidente Alexander Soljenitsin (1918-2008) revelou o universo sombrio dos campos de trabalhos forçados em obras como Arquipélago Gulag. Com a queda do comunismo, outros aspectos da vida social nas antigas repúblicas soviéticas começam a ser exorcizados.
EL SEMANAL DIGITAL
EDUCACIÓN SIBERIANA
La fascinante historia de los criminales que ni Stalin pudo doblegar
Manuel R. Ortega – 24 de octubre de 2010
Crimen, honor, violencia, coraje, religiosidad… un complejo revuelto que definió a la comunidad más dura de la URSS, contra la que se estrellaron las autoridades soviéticas: los urcas.
“Unos gozan la vida, otros la sufren, [...]
PREMIER ROMAN
Urkas! Itinéraire d’un parfait bandit sibérien
par Nicolaï Lilin
Denoël, trad. de l’italien par Marilène Raiola, 494 p., 23,50 euros
*** A côté des Urkas sibériens, la Camorra napolitaine fait figure de section locale du Rotary Club. Seule trace d’humanité dans cette microsociété mafieuse exilée an Transnistrie depuois l’époque sovétique: ses membres n’utilisent pas leurs armes à [...]
Né en Transnistrie en 1980, Nicolaï Lilin a grandi au sein d’une communauté pauvre et délinquante. Aujourd’hui, il vit en Italia et il a écrit en italien «Urkas!», roman autobiographique, traduit en 14 langues, où il décrit son enfance, qu’il juge, ici, «normale»
«Les Russes ont un problème avec la liberté»
Propos recueillis par Josyane Savigneau
Photos RICHARD [...]
In “Siberian Education,” Nicolai Lilin remembers growing-up in a violent criminal underworld. Even if only one-tenth of it is true, says reviewer Toby Lichtig, the book still achieves something impressive.
Among thieves
We could learn a lot from the honour code of a Siberian criminal caste, says Irvine Welsh
In this country we have specially designated zones where people learn to be criminals. In such areas there is practically no legitimate employment, with dealing drugs just about the sole way of earning cash. Youths offend, we send [...]
Serà que existem criminosos honestos?
Nicolai é um jovem que descreve a comunidade, Urca, inde cresceu. Brevemente no cinema.
Nicolái Lilin describe en ‘Educación siberiana’ su infancia urca
Cristina Castillón
Barcelona
Viste tejanos,camisetayunasdeportivas. Como cualquier jovende30años. Pero,Nicolái Lilin no es cualquiera. Nació en una región que pocos saben de letrear, Transnitria,hoy Moldavia,en el seno de una comunidad siberiana exiliada, los urcas, conocidos como“criminales honestos”. Tras su paso por varios centros de menores rusos, ser testigo del fin [...]
© Copyright 2010 Nicolai Lilin | Theme by WPExplorer