Pamiati, pamiati [In Memory of Memory]

'In memory of memory' by Maria Stepanova - an attempt to write the history of her own family, instantly coming to the question of the very possibility of preserving the memory of the past, analysis of the family archive, which turns into a review of the ways of life of the past in the present, and the history of the main events of the 20th century, how it can exist in a personal memory of a modern person. People and their traces disappear, things are deprived of their purpose, and testimonies speak in dead languages, describing and discarding various intermediaries between themselves and the great history, the author of 'Memory of Memory' remains and leaves us alone with our past. 5th edition, revised ...