Memoria. Memories, stories, poems
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Memoria. Memories, stories, poems
14.99 €
11.99 €
Nina Ivanovna Gagen-Torn occupies a prominent place among the authors of women's "camp" prose (along with E. Kersnovskaya, E. Ginzburg, T. Petkevich), whose diaries and memoirs reflect the fates of people who became victims of Stalin's repressions. A famous scholar who stood at the origins of Soviet ethnography, N. I. Gagen-Torn was also a talented poet, writer and memoirist. Her youth and student years were marked by the Silver Age and the first years of the Soviet Republic; she had the chance to hear Alexander Blok read his poems, she participated in Andrei Bely's seminars and attended meetings of the famous Volfila (Free Philosophical Association, which became the center of spiritual life in Petrograd in the 1920s). At the height of her scientific work, in 1936, she was arrested and sentenced to five years in the Kolyma camps. Two small daughters remained at large. After her release, she managed to defend her dissertation – and a new term, another five years in the camps, and then exile… But no matter how difficult the trials were, N. I. Gagen-Torn managed to preserve her firmness of will, her clarity of mind, her greedy interest in the world, and her desire to tell about her experiences, “so that at least a thin trace would remain, like the imprint of a snipe’s paw on the sand by the river, in the vast sands of Eternity.” In addition to the memoirs, the publication of which became possible only in 1994, after the author’s death, the edition includes poems written at different times in her life, and excerpts from diaries and letters prepared by Galina Gagen-Torn, as well as an introductory article by Marietta Chudakova.
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