In Memory of Memory
- ISBN-10
- 0811228843
- ISBN-13
- 9780811228848
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-02-09
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing
- Author
- Maria Stepanova
Description
An exploration of life at the margins of history from one of Russia’s most exciting contemporary writers 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 a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. In dialogue with writers 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 Dipping into various forms—essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and historical documents—Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.
Get the book
Similar books
-
In Memory of Memory
By Maria StepanovaIn Memory of Memory
-
An Estate of Memory
By Ilona KarmelThe Boston Globe called this novel of the Holocaust "gripping... masterful... disturbing and heartbreaking.
-
In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials
By Spencer BaileyAn extraordinary book that explores the art, architecture, and design of memorials around the world from the late twentieth century to today - an important book for our time
-
The Book of Memory: A Novel
By Petina GappahThe story that you have asked me to tell you does not begin with the pitiful ugliness of Lloyd’s death.
-
The Memory of Light
By Francisco X. StorkInspired in part by the author's own experience with depression, The Memory of Light is the rare young adult novel that focuses not on the events leading up to a suicide attempt, but the recovery from one -- about living when life doesn't ...
-
Truth in Memory
By Steven Jay Lynn, Kevin M. McConkeyThis book addresses these and other compelling questions reflecting deep divisions in scientific opinion, professional practice, and legal decision making.
-
The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture
By Mary CarruthersWhile responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new edition devotes much more attention to the role of trained memory in composition, whether of literature, music, architecture, or manuscript books.
-
The Voice Over: Poems and Essays
By Maria StepanovaTranslation from 'I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary': The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms, selected, translated and edited by Anthony Anemone and Peter Scotto (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2013), 83.
-
War of the Beasts and the Animals
By Maria StepanovaFirst full English translation of the poetry of Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's most innovative and exciting poets and thinkers.
-
Science of Memory Concepts
By Henry L. Roediger III, Yadin Dudai, Susan M. FitzpatrickThe aim of this book is to help initiate a new science of memory by bringing these perspectives together to create a unified understanding of the topic.