In Memory of Memory
By Maria Stepanova 2021-05-28 07:02:12
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Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize 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 ful... Read more

Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize

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 Dipping into various forms―essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and historical documents―Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.

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  • 400
  • New Directions; Translation edition
  • February 9, 2021
  • 9780811228848
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 p...
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