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About This Novel
"Memory of Memory" is a new type of composite novel by Maria Stepanova, a world-renowned contemporary Russian poet: it is both history, philosophy and literature. The novel is mainly strung together by two threads: one is the author's literary and philosophical speculations on old objects, documents, and people trying to "memory": Sontag, Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva, Sebald, Charlotte Salomon, etc. All entered her field of vision. Get new interpretations by thinking about the present and the past. The other is about the author searching for family relics, looking back on his own family history in modern Russian history, and piecing together the life story of several generations of a Jewish family: some of them integrated into the grand narrative and sacrificed their lives in the Great Patriotic War when they were just 20 years old; some passed by history: they participated in the Russian Revolution in the early 20th century and became the first batch of "female medical students studying in law" in Russia, but fell silent after returning to China; some He participated in the vigorous construction of the Soviet Union, but resolutely immigrated to Germany when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Some, such as the author himself, who is invisible but omnipresent in the book, entered the new century with a country that bid farewell to the past and was full of memories, thinking about Russia's present and the near or distant future... These two lines intersect with each other, outlining the strange storms and tiny waves of the huge 20th century. Exquisite and complex, it is eloquently told and contains the vastness and contemplation of Russian style.
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