In memory of memory [electronic resource] : a romance
Stepanova, Marii︠a︡2021
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With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of an entire century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of an ordinary family that somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. The family's pursuit of a quiet, civilised, ordinary life - during such atrocious times - is itself a strange odyssey. In dialogue with thinkers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, the book is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various genres - essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and history - Stepanova assembles a panorama of ideas and personalities and explores cultural and personal memory.
Main title:
In memory of memory [electronic resource] : a romance / by Maria Stepanova ; translated by Sasha Dugdale.
Author:
Stepanova, Marii︠a︡, authorDugdale, Sasha, 1974-, translator
Imprint:
London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021.
Collation:
1 online resource
Notes:
Translated from the Russian.Click on link below to go to East Sussex Digital LibraryDescription based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
ISBN:
9781913097547 (ebook)
Dewey class:
891.735
LC class:
PG3488.T4755
Language:
EnglishRussian
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BRN:
2515442