Publication

2021 - New Directions

Language

English

Word Count

100,000 words, Guess

Page Count

400 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780811228831
  • ISBN-100811228835
  • Library of Congress Control Number2020042654
  • OCLC Control Number1196822509
  • Better World Books9780811228831
and 2 more

Classifications

  • LCCPG3488.T4755P3613
  • LCCPG3488.T4755 P3613 2021

Description

"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."--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • In Memory of MemoryNew Directions2021-01-01

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