In Memory of Memory

Stepanova, Maria

ISBN 10: 1913097536 / ISBN 13: 9781913097530

Published by Fitzcarraldo, 2021

About this Item

Fine in wraps, albeit some scuffing to corner of spine to foot of front panel. First printing. Extremely scarce in first printing and shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. The next big thing in Eastern European writers and winner of the prestigious Berman Prize.

Seller Inventory # 99808

Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Memory of Memory
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913097536
• ISBN 13: 9781913097530
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova 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 Dipping into various forms - essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue and historical documents - Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.