20th anniversary of "Library of Freedom". Our guide to the Land of Bliss

For 20 years, the "Library of Freedom" series saw the light of nine dozen publications about Belarusian politics, language, history, society, journalism, prison, health and much more. We conclude by introducing you to our publishing product. By the way, every book is available in digital format.

For 20 years, the "Library of Freedom" series saw the light of nine dozen publications about Belarusian politics, language, history, society, journalism, prison, health and much more.

We conclude by introducing you to our publishing product.

By the way, every book is available in digital format.

Ninth letter to those who can read.
Land of bliss

Literature is not stronger than reality, it is simply reality seen and felt in a different way: contrasting, fast, explosive, compelling, without boring borders, in other words - freely.

Waves and the website of Svoboda naturally flowed into the format of books, when the masters of beautiful writing met with the audience.

On the covers of the "Libraries" books, you can see the names of Vasyl Bykov, Svetlana Aleksievich, Ryhor Baradulin, Vladimir Orlov, and in the index of names published at the end of each book, the entire Belarusian PEN, Union of Writers, hundreds of authors who have enjoyed free creativity.

Many other books of the "Library" awarded with literary prizes can rightfully be placed on this shelf - but today only the selected ones.

As one reader wrote — pure bliss!

Alexander Lukashuk, librarian of Svoboda

"While the arrow flies"

While the arrow flies (.pdf)
While the arrow flies (YouTube, Audiobook)
While the arrow flies (Soundcloud)

This is the only book of the "Library" where a hexameter is present.

Fortunately, not all of it is written in this size - although the poet, novelist and historian

Vladimir Orlov

could - but only the preface.

After all, how else to present the eternal occupation - the search for beauty and truth, which the readers lead in this book, and the author helps them.

The writer gave hundreds of answers to questions during meetings in libraries and around bonfires, gave speeches in apartments and universities - and here, at Svaboda.

"Small medical encyclopedia of Bakharevich"

Bakharevich's small medical encyclopedia (.pdf)

Algerd Bakharevich's anti-scientific essays

were

intended for a narrow circle of self-taught doctors, but were disassembled into quotes, translated into foreign languages and caused irreparable damage to the sad aphorism about a healthy body, in which a healthy mind is the opposite.

Every real writer is not an engineer, but a doctor - open up and heal!

Maybe you will survive.

"Calendar of Bakharevich"

Bakharevich's calendar (.pdf)

Having finished medicine, the author dealt with history.

The book consists of 366 essays by

Algerd Bakharevich

about the historical events of every day of the year.

For clarity: three hundred and sixty six!

This book was created in Hamburg and Minsk, Wrocław and Visby, in trains and hotels, on islands and streets, it moved forward steadily, like the hand of a clock, and was written like an artistic canvas, to finally sound like music.

"Baharevich's Hamburg Account"

Baharewicz's Hamburg account (.pdf)

There are not enough scandals in Belarusian literature.

The Hamburg cycle

of Algerd Bakharevich about classics and classics completely corrected this shortcoming

The author was not only accused of cannibalism, but all other sins were pointed out to him and Svoboda in detail, including threats to kill him when they met.

This made me very happy - a Belarusian book capable of evoking such emotions in Belarusians showed that not everything is lost.

And the truth is that everything was just beginning!

Because the classic always begins.

"Night reader-1": 50 authors from the air of "Night Freedom"

"Night reader-2": 50 authors from the air of "Night Freedom"

Night Reader 2006-2008 (Soundcloud)

Two multimedia discs were needed to accommodate the most intimate format of beautiful writing — the author's reading of his own poems and prose.

The program "Night Freedom" invited writers to the air every week, and for five evenings they answered questions and read their works.

100 votes multiplied by 5 equals endless bliss - listen!

"100 words"

100 words (.pdf)

Lacanism was never considered a characteristic of Belarusian beautiful writing.

At least until this book.

Jan Maksimyuk,

the author of the anthology of the best short texts ,

ran the column of the same name on the Svaboda website in 2014–2016.

The people loved the format and praised their hundreds non-stop, but the strict editor selected only 300 for the book. As the people say, bona est brevitas.

Join this people!

"Family album"

Family album (.pdf)
The Family Album (Soundcloud)

A dangerous book.

Complaints about this program were sent immediately to Washington by attentive listeners: how can you laugh at a time when you should cry, how can you talk about flared pants when the salaries are such that the pants don't fit.

The virtuoso of nostalgia

Vinces Mudrov

recalled such forgotten realities of the Soviet era that one became terribly envious and wanted, as one inattentive listener wrote, to live in this album for at least a day.

Now it is possible - in the album of Mudrov's family and not only memory, pay attention to the footnotes at the bottom of each part and the index at the end.

And make sure that the "Album" is not nostalgia, but avant-garde!

"Tale on the phone"

Tales on the phone (.pdf)

Still, we still admit - this book should have been called "

#come

on, wait ", as
Ales Pilecki

used to end each of his magical posts on Facebook .

At the presentation in Minsk, the then ambassador of Russia approached the author and asked for a copy, but the author just waved his hands - it's gone, wait a minute.

The genre of the book was defined as hyperrealism, the style - as intimate on the phone, the language - as beer slang, and the main character - as an organ that appears in its entirety as it wishes.

This book is still waiting for its incarnation as an animation, as an opera and perhaps as a ballet.

Try it!

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