{"title":"Память и забвение в современной русской прозе (Полина Барскова, Евгений Водолазкин, Мария Степанова)","authors":"Danijela Lugarić Vukas","doi":"10.1016/j.ruslit.2023.06.001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The article analyzes several contemporary Russian literary texts, <em>Living Pictures</em> (2014) by Polina Barskova, <em>Aviator</em> (2016) by Evgeny Vodolazkin, and <em>In Memory of Memory</em> (2017) by Maria Stepanova, in which, on the one hand, writing itself is a form of remembrance (literary creation equates to memory), and, on the other hand, memory establishes and manifests itself by overcoming multifaceted configurations of oblivion. Apart from the fact that all the analyzed texts propose aesthetically and narratologically absorbing conceptualizations of the processes of conversion of elusiveness and nothingness (oblivion) into a new presence (memory), interpretations of literary works from the point of view of oblivion initiate a different understanding of the literary value of oblivion, which is commonly recognized as an anthropological category which stands as the Other of memory, as its <em>minus-priëm</em> (Lotman).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43192,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"RUSSIAN LITERATURE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304347923000133","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, SLAVIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The article analyzes several contemporary Russian literary texts, Living Pictures (2014) by Polina Barskova, Aviator (2016) by Evgeny Vodolazkin, and In Memory of Memory (2017) by Maria Stepanova, in which, on the one hand, writing itself is a form of remembrance (literary creation equates to memory), and, on the other hand, memory establishes and manifests itself by overcoming multifaceted configurations of oblivion. Apart from the fact that all the analyzed texts propose aesthetically and narratologically absorbing conceptualizations of the processes of conversion of elusiveness and nothingness (oblivion) into a new presence (memory), interpretations of literary works from the point of view of oblivion initiate a different understanding of the literary value of oblivion, which is commonly recognized as an anthropological category which stands as the Other of memory, as its minus-priëm (Lotman).
期刊介绍:
Russian Literature combines issues devoted to special topics of Russian literature with contributions on related subjects in Croatian, Serbian, Czech, Slovak and Polish literatures. Moreover, several issues each year contain articles on heterogeneous subjects concerning Russian Literature. All methods and viewpoints are welcomed, provided they contribute something new, original or challenging to our understanding of Russian and other Slavic literatures. Russian Literature regularly publishes special issues devoted to: • the historical avant-garde in Russian literature and in the other Slavic literatures • the development of descriptive and theoretical poetics in Russian studies and in studies of other Slavic fields.