What is the author's tone in Journey Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg?

The tone of Ginzburg's "Journey into the Whirlwind" is one of a poetic realism. Ginzburg was a writer and a school teacher who could recite poetry by heart and could write it in her head. She is able to provide the reader with poetic prose which seems to float along with the horrific events that she writes about. She intermixes her prose with pieces of poetry, both original and previously written. While she does not hesitate to expound on the horror of her situations and the cruelty of others, Ginzburg does so in a manner that is not overwhelmingly graphic or unnecessarily negative. Despite the unrivaled suffering she experiences, she finds beauty in the world around her, and eagerly incorporates this into her writing -such as when she remembers warm memories of her father while in the Butyrki punishment cells.