捍卫记忆：利季娅作品选

by Lydia Chukovskaya, 利季娅·丘可夫斯卡娅, 蓝英年 (Translator)

为了不忘却悲惨的过去，索尔仁尼琴写了《古拉格群岛》，为无辜牺牲者树立起一座纪念碑。利季娅写了《索菲娅·彼得罗夫娜》……但当局并不希望人民记住过去……赫尔岑说过：“凡是不敢说的事，只存在一半。”于是，“先存在一半，”利季娅写道，“后四分之一，再后十分之一。如果及时封住报刊的嘴（多亏我们报刊只有一张嘴），最后等到受难者和见证人通通死光，新的一代就什么都不知道了，不能理解发生过的事，不能从祖辈和父辈的经历中吸取任何教训了。” 利季娅决心捍卫记忆，与谎言斗争。不再允许别人铲除对被迫害人的真实回忆，宁肯不发表，宁肯得罪人，也决不妥协。

488 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2011

About the author

Lydia Chukovskaya wrote 'Sofia Petrovna', a harrowing story about life during the Great Purges. But it was a while before this story would achieve widespread recognition. Out of favour with the authorities, yet principled and uncompromising, Chukovskaya was unable to hold down any kind of steady employment. But gradually, she started to get published again: an introduction to the works of Taras Shevchenko, another one for the diaries of Miklouho-Maclay.
By the time of Stalin's death in 1953, Chukovskaya had become a respected figure within the literary establishment, as one of the editors of the cultural monthly 'Literaturnaya Moskva'. During the late 1950s, 'Sofia Petrovna' finally made its way through Russia's literary circles, in manuscript form through samizdat. Khrushchev's Thaw set in, and the book was about to be published in 1963, but was stopped at the last moment for containing "ideological distortions". Indomitable as ever, Chukovskaya sued the publisher for full royalties and won. The book was eventually published in Paris in 1965, but without the author's permission and under the somewhat inaccurate title 'The Deserted House'. There were also some unauthorized alterations to the text. The following year, a New York publisher published it again, this time with the original title and text fully restored.

Reviews

[MA · Rating 5 out of 5]

作者对捍卫记忆的决心令人动容，最令人印象深刻的部分是其绝不向审查机制而妥协的勇气，宁可不再出版，也不愿为了迎合而隐去事实。