Powtórzenie jako konsekwencja zapomnienia w powieści Wiaczesława Rybakowa „На мохнатой спине”
Repetition as a Consequence of Oblivion in Viacheslav Rybakov’s Novel “Na Mokhnatoi Spine”

Summary/Abstract: In the background of the novel Na Mokhnatoi Spine is one of the key events for the outbreak of World War II: the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact. Viacheslav Rybakov, by interweaving true history with fictional threads, the past with the present, created a work not so much in the genre of “alternative history” as a highly allusive text. By referring to issues that, either for ideological reasons or in the plan of historical policy, were first ignored in silence and, consequently, forgotten, Rybakov proves the importance of unadulterated memory. The author of the novel puts forward the thesis that only a message consistent with historical reality allows to draw adequate conclusions from history. Otherwise, an individual keeps repeating past patterns and commits the same disastrous deeds, the memory of which was meant to be obliterated or distorted. This is evidenced by references to the temporal level of the novel closer to the reader.

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