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Non-Memoirs (Scholarly Series)
Yuri M. Lotman
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Description for Non-Memoirs (Scholarly Series)
Paperback. Translator(s): Brickman, Caroline Lemak. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: BM; GTE; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 164.
One afternoon in December 1992, in Tartu, Estonia, Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman reluctantly sat down to dictate his memoirs to Elena Pogosian, his assistant, over a pot of tea. It was to be the first of twelve dictation sessions during which the initial draft of Non-Memoirs was created. The sessions were spread out over that winter and into the spring of 1993--the last spring of Lotman's life. The result of the process is this book - a book of memories and recollections of a good part of 20th century, divided into seven sections. The five shorter sections concern themselves with a ... Read more
One afternoon in December 1992, in Tartu, Estonia, Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman reluctantly sat down to dictate his memoirs to Elena Pogosian, his assistant, over a pot of tea. It was to be the first of twelve dictation sessions during which the initial draft of Non-Memoirs was created. The sessions were spread out over that winter and into the spring of 1993--the last spring of Lotman's life. The result of the process is this book - a book of memories and recollections of a good part of 20th century, divided into seven sections. The five shorter sections concern themselves with a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
108
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564789969
SKU
9781564789969
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About Yuri M. Lotman
Yuri M. Lotman was born in 1922 in what was then Petrograd, Russia, and died in 1993 in Tartu, Estonia. He was founder of the Moscow--Tartu School and the initiator of the discipline of cultural semiotics. His works translated into English include Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture and The Structure of the Artistic Text.
Reviews for Non-Memoirs (Scholarly Series)
... Lotman, in my view, is a critic who started from a structuralist approach... but who does not remain bound by it.
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco