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Voroshylovhrad Lost: Memory and Identity in a Novel by Serhiy Zhadan (англ.)
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02.12.2025 |
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02.12.2025 |
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Voroshylovhrad can be read as a story about shared living experience in the land of the fallen, of those who are sometimes left with nothing but memories. The inhabitants of the land on the border with emptiness have forgotten their shared life experiences and have been scattered. The text implies that if they recollect their identity, they can rise up again and defend what they are left with. Unfortunately, all these people inhabit the borderland, and they are in the land of the fallen. This fall will always mar their existence. The black holes of the landscape which halt space and time can be closed only by memories of the past: those collages that hide the bigger picture. And it is exactly those collages and assemblages which we have to keep to. There is no sense of historical development in this land- all that comes and goes bonds its inhabitants together. They are forever lost in the nirvana of total presence, but this presence is in the past. The tension between memory and forgetting is absolutely irreducible in Voroshylovhrad. The radical emptiness is part of the "geopoetics" of the novel, and the memories one comes to observe are there to fill that gaping black hole of the "other side." Filling this emptiness of forgetfulness with memories as recollections and assemblages is portrayed as the redemptive journey of the main character. Despite the noble cause of redemption, Zhadan's final gesture is one of irony, implying that no natural and ultimate solution is possible. The magic trick of bonding memory and moral invocation, like the priest's trick with a lighter, is deceitful, and we may have to give in to self-delusion in order to achieve solidarity and an integrated society. |
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