记忆如何可能:《记忆记忆》中的时空叙事

The Possibility of Memory:The Spatio-Temporal Narrative of In Memory of Memory

对个体生命的真实书写一直是俄语文学的重要传统,玛丽亚·斯捷潘诺娃的近作《记忆记忆》就是俄罗斯当代文学对其传记传统继承与创新潮流中的优秀成果。修补那些时间上的空洞,记住已被淡忘的家族、民族记忆,斯捷潘诺娃将保管、引用过去以救赎现在作为自己写作的使命。通过多线并置、体裁杂糅、消弭时空界限等方式,作品打破了单一的线性时间叙事。承载记忆的物品与旅途又以立体的视觉意象帮助作者将首先建立在时间维度中的记忆空间化,实现使记忆“可见”的空间叙事追求:百年历史的耙梳,跨国空间的寻访,还赋予了作品跨文化的大视域,作者将大屠杀这样的犹太民族记忆置于全球语境,作为极端暴行的象征,对跨越时间、跨越距离、跨越语言的新世纪“幸存者”也将产生特别的警醒作用.

The authentic writing of individual lives has always been an important tradition in Russian literature.Maria Stepanova's new work In Memory of Memory represents a remarkable achievement in the inheritance and innovation of this heritage.Preserving faded family and national memories,Stepanova is committed to her mission of preserving and invoking the past in order to redeem the present.Through the juxtaposition of multiple lines,the hybridity of genres and the dissolution of the boundaries between the past and the present,this work breaks the single linear temporal narrative.With the visual images of the material and the journey to the family roots,the author spatializes the memory initially established in the temporal dimension,and realizes the artistic pursuit of visualizing memories.By combing the history of the 20"century and visiting specific places in different countries,Stepanova shows a cross-cultural perspective in this work.She places the Jewish memory,especially the Holocaust in a global context.As a symbol of extreme atrocities that transcends time,distance and language,it will have a special warning effect on the survivors of the new century.