The Will in the Face of Power
Image/Gabriel Ganiarov Cover of the First Volume The Will in the Face of Power There is a question that runs through my tetralogy from its first pages to its final act: what remains of me when someone, from a position of power, decides what I must do and what I must not? It is born in 1941, with Sergeant Doroshenko’s decision, but it does not belong solely to his time. From then on, a long struggle is waged between power and humanity, one that crosses generations, borders, regimes, and bodies. Institutions change, as do the techniques of surveillance, the pretexts, and the mechanisms of control. What remains constant is the individual’s will facing a structure that seeks to dispose of their destiny. My characters live inside that predicament. They are not confronted only by external events, but by a more intimate violence: the possibility that another may determine who they must be, what they may feel, whom they may l...
