Russians remember the end of the Soviet Union and the 1990s; Alexievich's chorus.
Annie Ernaux's life from 1941 to 2006 as a collective French memory in the third person; her Nobel.
Voices of the liquidators, widows and resettled villagers; Alexievich's Nobel oral history.
Solzhenitsyn's literary investigation of the camps from 227 witnesses; the abridged edition is enough.
Elie Wiesel at fifteen in Auschwitz and Buchenwald; a hundred pages that changed how the Holocaust is written.
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