Generational Aspects of Biographical Writing
Generational Aspects of Biographical Writing

Summary/Abstract: Biography accumulates meanings that nourish every culture. Biography captures the cultural memory and contributes to the process of conveying the cultural memory to the posterity. How is an individual life formed by all its biographical parts connected with the world of others, the life of the generation? The boundaries between individual memory and cultural memory are penetrable. We consider the role of individual biography in the formation of generational biography, the role of individual memory in the formation of a group’s memory and retention of this memory in cultural memory. The article deals with generational aspects of biography and the notion of biographical writing. The collective journal (Leningrad, 1925) is the main exemplar of biographical writing in the article.

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