Non-Memoirs Contributor(s): Lotman, Yuri M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1564789969 ISBN-13: 9781564789969 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2014016369 |
Series: Scholarly |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.35 lbs) 108 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: One afternoon in December 1992, in Tartu, Estonia, Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman reluctantly sat down to dictate his memoirs to Elena Pogosian, his assistant, over a pot of tea. It was to be the first of twelve dictation sessions during which the initial draft of Non-Memoirs was created. The sessions were spread out over that winter and into the spring of 1993--the last spring of Lotman's life. The result of the process is this book - a book of memories and recollections of a good part of 20th century, divided into seven sections. The five shorter sections concern themselves with a single anecdote or theme (lice on the front, an encounter with a hare, a "totally Bulgakovian" episode, a visit from the KGB, Tartu School politics); the two longer sections provide the narrative backbone of the memoirs, tending to treat the passage of time, rather than a single event (school and frontline life, the end of the war and postwar university life). |