„Přijde mi, že to je někoho cizího“: Paměť a vzpomínání v románu Dmitrije Prigova Žijte v Moskvě

• Authors: Kapičiak Jakub

Title variants

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“IT SEEMS TO BE SOMEONE ELSE’S”: MEMORY AND REMEMBERING IN DMITRIJ PRIGOV’S NOVEL LIVE IN MOSCOW

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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The article analyzes the novel “Živite v Moskve” (2000) by the conceptual writer and artist Dmitrij Prigov (1940–2007). The main aim of the paper is to find out how the author approaches the issue of memory and remembering. The article shows that the novel does not attempt to reconstruct the factual past events. It uses memory as an instrument for the production of fictional events which are based on the narrative and discursive schemata embedded in the narrator’s conscience. Therefore, the act of remembering can be seen as platonic anamnesis (recollection). It means that the narrator recollects the schemata, however, the latter do not exist as “pure” forms, but they are graspable only in the form of a very concrete literary realization.

Keywords

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Anamnesis; imagination; memory; Moscow conceptualism; Prigov; schemata

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 32
• Issue: 66
• Pages: 113-129

Contributors

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Kapičiak Jakub