In Memory of Memory : : a Romance

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / General / Stepanova, Maria, Fiction / Stepanova, Maria
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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Originally published in Russian at Pami͡ati pami͡ati.
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.
"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.

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