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In Memory of Memory Maria Stepanova

In Memory of Memory By Maria Stepanova

In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova


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Summary

With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family managed to survive the twentieth century.

In Memory of Memory Summary

In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova

With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova 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 Dipping into various forms - essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue and historical documents - Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.

In Memory of Memory Reviews

'Maria Stepanova is one of Russia's most influential cultural figures ... IN MEMORY OF MEMORY is the story of three generations of her family told through the preserved and remembered artifacts of their lives - the tale of people whose greatest achievement was simply to survive the perilous 20th century.' - THE MOSCOW TIMES

About Maria Stepanova

Maria Stepanova is a poet, essayist, journalist and the author of ten poetry collections and three books of essays. She has received several Russian and international literary awards (including the prestigious Andrey Bely Prize and Joseph Brodsky Fellowship). IN MEMORY OF MEMORY, a documentary novel, won Russia's Bolshaya Kniga Award in 2018. Her collection of poems, WAR OF THE BEASTS AND THE ANIMALS, is published by Bloodaxe in Sasha Dugdale's translation in 2021. Stepanova is the founder and editor-in-chief of the online independent crowd-sourced journal Colta.ru, which covers the cultural, social and political reality of contemporary Russia.

Additional information

GOR011220495
9781913097530
1913097536
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Fitzcarraldo Editions
2021-02-17
448
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