Maria Stepanova

In Memory of Memory

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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, civilized, 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, In Memory of Memory i… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Dugdale, Sasha (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-2883-1
EAN: 9780811228831
Produktnummer: 34225580
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 400 S.
Masse: 666 g
Gewicht: 666

Über den Autor

Maria Stepanova, born in Moscow in 1972, is a poet, essayist, and journalist, and editor in chief of the online newspaper Colta. In 2018, she was awarded the Bolshaya Kniga Award for In Memory of Memory.