In memory of memory : a romance / Maria Stepanova ; translated by Sasha Dugdale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stepanova, Marii︠a︡, author.

Contributor:

Dugdale, Sasha, translator.

Standardized Title:

Pami͡ati pami͡ati. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Families--Russia--Fiction.

Families.

Memory--Fiction.

Memory.

Russia.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

vii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2021.

Summary:

"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 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 vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers a bold exploration of cultural and personal memory."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: PART ONE

1. Someone Else's Diary

2. On Beginnings

3. A Handful Of Photographs

4. Sex And The Dead

Not-A-Chapter: 1942 or 1943

5. Aleph And Where It Led Me

6. A Love Interest

7. Injustice And Its Different Facets

Not-A-Chapter: 1930

8. Rents In The Fabric, And Diversions

Not-A-Chapter: 1934

9. The Problem Of Choice

PART TWO

1. The Jewboy Hides From View

Not-A-Chapter: 1905-1915

2. Selfies And Their Consequences

3. Goldchain Adds Up, Woodman Takes Away

4. Mandelstam Rejects And Sebald Collects

Not-A-Chapter: 1947

5. On One Side And On The Other

6. Charlotte, Or Acts Of Insubordination

Not-A-Chapter: 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985

7. Yakov's Voice And Isav's Photograph

8. Lyodik, Or Silence

9. Joseph, Or Obedience

10. Things I Don't Know

PART THREE

1. You Can't Escape Your Fate

2. Little Lyonya From The Nursery

3. Boys And Girls

4. The Daughter Of A Photographer.

Notes:

"New Directions paperbook original (NDP1489)."

Originally published in Russian at Pami͡ati pami͡ati.

ISBN:

9780811228831

0811228835

OCLC:

1196822509