“How many of us are here?”: on ways of self-identification in Nadezhda Mandelstam’s memoir prose
https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2024-77-3-98-103
Abstract
On the one hand, the memoir heritage of Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam turns out to be a significant source for studying O. Mandelstam’s literary heritage; on the other hand, it reveals unique linguistic examples that help identify the idiostyle of the writer herself. It is interesting that N. Mandelstam was not only the wife of a prominent poet, but also an elitist linguistic personality; therefore, her texts are characterized by artistic storytelling, deep reflection and intent attention to details. These and other characteristics of the memoirist’s text encourage a thorough study of her works, in particular the first book, “Memoirs,” and the second, “The Second Book.” The memoirs of N. Mandelstam are not only a story about the life of a person living in the twentieth century, but also an attempt to preserve the memory of the writer’s contemporaries who, as well as she did, had to go through a series of severe trials. The article considers the methods of the author’s self-identification, presented from a linguistic point of view, in N. Mandelstam’s ego-documents. The specificity of Mandelstam’s works allows us to highlight several features of “female” writing, salient for the memoirist.
About the Author
A. Semenova
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Semenova Aleksandra Aleksandrovna, graduate student, Assistant Professor
48 Moika Embankment, St. Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation
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For citations:
Semenova A. “How many of us are here?”: on ways of self-identification in Nadezhda Mandelstam’s memoir prose. Philology and Culture. 2024;(3):98-103. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2024-77-3-98-103
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