Published: 2021-10-22

Death in geography – a memory passed on to the Earth (“Oblivion” by Sergei Lebedev)

Bożena Zoja Zilborowicz

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyse the topography of the novel “Oblivion”, understood as the comprehensive system of nature’s components by which the writer rises the question about the lost and forgotten post-existence of the Soviet Gulags. In Lebedev’s work, the nature appears as a destructive element, transforming the Gulag’s Atlantis into the world of abstract deaths, performed in a physical dimension, however, devoted of a socio-cultural dimension. The natural landscape does not act as a bearer of a historical memory; conversely, it is a silent witness whose silence calls into question the very existence of the concentration camp as a crime scene

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Zilborowicz, B. Z. (2021). Death in geography – a memory passed on to the Earth (“Oblivion” by Sergei Lebedev). Przegląd Rusycystyczny [Russian Studies Review], (4 (176). https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.11870

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No. 4 (176) (2021)
Published: 2021-10-22


ISSN: 0137-298X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/pr

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Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycystyczne oraz Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

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