Blokada Leningradu i postpamięć w powieści Jeleny Czyżowej Город, написанный по памяти
The siege of Leningrad and postmemory in the novel City written from memory by Yelena Chizhova

Summary/Abstract: In the novel City Written from Memory by Yelena Chizhova published in 2019, the siege of Leningrad is inscribed in several different thematic lines. It determines the fate of the family, becomes a reference point for many situations, events and facts. The article is devoted to the process of constitution and slow formation of separate, individual postmemory of the siege in the consciousness of the author’s subject. The analysis of the novel’s text shows that this process was never uniform, but consisted of several phases, the diversity of which resulted from the factors such as i.a. the age of the post-remembering subject, external (cultural, socio-political) circumstances, family relationships, readiness of memory bearers to share their experience, the ability to express in words the heritage received from them. The article focuses primarily on issues related to the distinctive features of individual phases of postmemory, as well as its impact on the personality of the subject being its owner.

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