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5. Fiction and documentary accuracy: memoirs and comments (Book review: Lekmanov O.A. “Life has passed. And youth lasts ...”. A guide to the book by Irina Odoevtseva “On the banks of the Neva”) (OPEN ACCESS)

Fiction and documentary accuracy: memoirs and comments (Book review: Lekmanov O.A. “Life has passed. And youth lasts ...”. A guide to the book by Irina Odoevtseva “On the banks of the Neva”) (OPEN ACCESS)

Zhulkova K.A.

Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Abstract

«A guide to the book by Irina Odoevtseva" On the banks of the Neva "» – a rich source of information about the cultural life of the early XX century, research based on the study of memoirs, letters, contemporary analytical works. Comments by O.A. Lekmanov help not only to understand where in the book of I. Odoevtseva «fiction», where «memory errors or deliberate exaggeration» [Lekmanov, 2020, p. 4], but also to determine the reasons for the hidden and explicit play with facts.

Keywords

memoirs; comments; O. Lekmanov; I. Odoevtseva; Silver Age; N. Gumilyov; O. Mandelstam; facts; mistakes

For citing: Zhulkova K.A. (2021). Fiction and documentary accuracy: memoirs and comments (Book review: Lekmanov O.A. “Life has passed. And youth lasts ...”. A guide to the book by Irina Odoevtseva “On the banks of the Neva”). Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 3(47): Literature and history – fact and fiction, pp. 140-152. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2021.03.12

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