From spirituality to literature. Aspects of memory in the works by Vadim Borisov Cover Image

Od duchowości do literatury. Aspekty pamięci w publicystyce Wadima Borisowa
From spirituality to literature. Aspects of memory in the works by Vadim Borisov

Author(s): Monika Sidor
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: cultural memory; Russia; spirituality; history vs. memory; national identity; personality

Summary/Abstract: This paper depicts a category of memory in the works by Vadim Borisov, a historian of the Orthodox Church and a literary critic, whose fate in the communist period was strictly connected to the political activity of A. Solzhenitsyn. The most known works by Borisov are primarily devoted to various issues of the Soviet people in the philosophical and historical perspective, but they also stress the problem of memory very clearly. The author of the article characterises several aspects of the phenomenon juxtaposing them with the theories proposed by contemporary memory scientists. The scrutiny shows that Borisov's deliberations surpassed the boundaries of political discourse underlining cultural and religious dimensions of the given problem which have become an important subject under consideration of many subsequent scholars.

  • Issue Year: XIII/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 273-284
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish
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