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- Title
Kuidas taasluua minevikku?
- Authors
Vseviov, David
- Abstract
The writer Andrei Hvostov begins his Sillamäe Passion with the wish to take his son with him into the "distant 1980's" that he describes but abandons his initial intention. He feels that his son would not be capable of thoroughly perceiving what has been anyway, including the atmosphere of fear that prevailed in the Soviet Union at that time. Thus one can ask on the basis of the writer's works, to what extent can the past be recreated? A good example of the extent to which the past needs "deciphering" is J. Lotman's book of commentaries on the novel Jevgeni Onegin, which contains a great many explanations, without which the living conditions of the first quarter of the 19th century would be incomprehensible. A certain amount of objective loss is inevitably encoded in the writing of history, in other words, the restoration of events of the past. This, however, means that the claim to represent historical truth can be justified only in the most general framework, leaving freedom for all manner of conjecture in the details.
- Subjects
SILLAMAE Passion (Book); HVOSTOV, Andrei; SOVIET social conditions; ESTONIAN literature -- History &; criticism; HISTORY in literature; NINETEEN eighties in literature; THEMES in literature
- Publication
Tuna, 2012, Issue 1, p2
- ISSN
1406-4030
- Publication type
Literary Criticism