“TISMĂNEANU REPORT” AS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. HISTORY WRITING AT THE END OF (SOVIET) MODERNITY
“TISMĂNEANU REPORT” AS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. HISTORY WRITING AT THE END OF (SOVIET) MODERNITY

Summary/Abstract: This paper argues that the Tismăneanu Report is a form of auto-poesis given the central role biography and biographical trajectory play in its making and in its narrative form. This biographical centrality is analyzed against the background of a wider transformation at the end of the (Soviet) modernity in relation to the interplay between history writing and memory. The paper traces a shift towards history-as-memory, that is to a mode of relating to and representing the past specific to the endgame of modernity and as such embodying all the contradictions and paradoxes of this “age of transition”.

• Details
• Contents