FAMILY CHRONICLE AS FORMATION OF HISTORICAL MEMORY OF THE GENERATIONS IN THE NOVEL “WALK IN THE TRACKS” BY V. SHAROV
The article deals with the first novel of the contemporary Russian writer Vladimir Sharov’s “Walk in the Tracks” (1991). Creating a fictional chronicle of four generations of Kreutzwald and entering his fate for the Russian history of the twentieth century, the author investigates the mechanisms of movement and repetition of history. In this article the author’s strategy is to detect and analyse the texts of the genus Kreutzwald. The author realizes the only way to gain immortality of the individual and the species by restoring the memory of the descendants of the ancestors.
Keywords: V. Sharov, chronical, Russian history, pseudo-history, texts, memory
Issue: 2, 2013
Pages: 48 — 53
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