The forms of memory and the memory of forms in Mikhail Shishkin’s novel The Taking of Izmail Cover Image

Формы памяти и память формы в романе Михаила Шишкина Взятие Измаила
The forms of memory and the memory of forms in Mikhail Shishkin’s novel The Taking of Izmail

Author(s): Aleksandr Raspopov
Subject(s): Novel, Russian Literature, Theory of Literature, Politics of History/Memory, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycytyczne
Keywords: Mikhail Shishkin; autobiographical narrative; cultural memory; mnemonics;

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to the problem of memory in Mikhail Shishkin’s novel The Taking of Izmail. The main goal of the present research is to incorporate the Shishkin’s novel into memory studies. The approach to the memory aspect of the novel is based on Renate Lachmann’s conclusion that literature is one of the mnemonic constructions of the world. The analysis of memory in the novel identifies the author’s model of constructing the narrative of both self and outside world as compound and heterogeneous.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 168
  • Page Range: 49-61
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian