К ВОПРОСУ ПОСТПАМЯТИ В РОМАНЕ СЕРГЕЯ ЛЕБЕДЕВА ЛЮДИ АВГУСТА
ON THE QUESTION OF POSTMEMORY IN THE NOVEL BY SERGEI LEBEDEV THE PEOPLE OF AUGUST

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to the analysis of Sergei Lebedev’s novel The People of August (2016) in the context of postmemory. The work is focused on the writer’s third attempt to comprehend the past, this time in the context of the landmark events of 1991 for Russia – a kind of border situation that turns into an impulse to fight for the future. But, unfortunately, as Lebedev shows, regardless of political circumstances, history repeats itself all the time. Hence, the traumatic imperative of searching for the „forgotten” dead becomes the main „storyline” of next generations. The policy of the current, once again uncontested authorities, which prefers a utilitarian rather than ceremonial attitude to the dead and supports„Sovietism”, condemns Russia to, paradoxical being-non-being, endless traumatic remaining in the „mute” memory without the possibility of regaining its own identity.

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