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La polvere della memoria. Osservazioni sul libro di M. Stepanova "Pamjati pamjati"
No full textLa polvere della memoria. Osservazioni sul libro di M. Stepanova Pamjati pamjati
Il libro di M. Stepanova, Pamjati pamjati (2017), definito dai critici “il miglior romanzo russo degli ultimi anni”, è entrato dopo pochi giorni dalla sua pubblicazione nelle classifiche dei libri più ven-duti, dando grande notorietà a una poetessa e saggista, nota e apprezzata nei circoli intellettuali pro-gressisti. L’opera si basa sul desiderio dell’autrice di raccogliere e salvare i ricordi e le testimonian-ze dei propri cari sullo sfondo della grande storia. Metaromanzo, storia d’amore, resoconto di viag-gio, riflessione sulla fotografia o tutte queste cose insieme, in Pamjati pamjati, il fenomeno della memoria si sovrappone ad altri temi, diventa ampio e molteplice: la memoria e la storia, la memoria e la catastrofe, la memoria e il suono, la memoria e gli oggetti, la memoria e l’etica. L’autrice porta alla luce i suoi morti e sono loro che la aiuteranno a cambiare il suo linguaggio.
A scrivere quello che è in sostanza un necrologio alla memoria la aiuta uno degli autori che le sono più vicini, W. G. Sebald, i cui libri, a prescindere dal tema trattato, sono sempre scritti dalla parte dei morti. Partendo dall’idea di scrivere la storia della propria famiglia ebrea – russa – europea, composta da medici, architetti, bibliotecari, ragionieri e ingegneri che aspirano a condurre una vita tranquilla in un mondo violento e incivile, l’autrice tocca il problema della memoria del passato, dei piccoli e grandi avvenimenti del XX secolo, e di come essi possano sopravvivere nella memoria personale del singolo. L’ebraismo costituisce uno dei punti focali della narrazione, segna il destino dei personaggi anche se non tragicamente, perché quasi tutti riescono a sfuggire all’olocausto, al terrore staliniano. Non di meno la fragilità e l’insignificanza delle loro vite appaiono vulnerabili.
Diviso in tre parti, la prima di nove capitoli, la seconda di dieci e la terza di quattro, il libro mescola nelle prime due parti lettere di parenti, documenti, che conservano le loro voci. Intorno alle lettere, ci sono fotografie, oggetti quotidiani che l’autrice non si limita a descrivere al lettore, bensì mostra, trascrive, ingloba nel suo testo, perché ha sfiducia nelle immagini, nei selfi che pretendono di ripro-durre la vita senza riuscirci. La definizione “romance”, romanza, che leggiamo in copertina caratte-rizza perfettamente l’opera, tanto che alla fine Stepanova confessa a se stessa di aver dedicato il suo tempo non ad un’occupazione rispettabile, a una ricerca o a uno studio, bensì a un romanzo familia-re “freudiano”, a una “romanza sentimentale sul passato”.The Dust of Memory. A few remarks on M. Stepanova’s book Pamjati pamjati
The present article deals with M. Stepanova’s book Post-Memory published in 2017 with great suc-cess, a book which has no analogues not only in Russian but also in world literature. A meta-novel, a great literary reconstruction, which has created a whole new genre and sounds the relation be-tween memory, time, and history.
Stepanova had the idea of this writing at ten or eleven years. The project started as an exploration of how our memory works. When she started working on the book, she meant linear narrative —a sto-ry of search and finding. Go there, go here, find out, describe. It seemed her then that a large part of the hiatus and failures that have been family history will be easy to fill in accurate knowledge; but it turned out that the story is mostly from hiatus and is neither to find nor to make up for really any-thing. Only when she began to disassemble the family archive, she found, among other things, let-ters, photos, horoscopes, childhood souvenirs, things that the author examines in astonishment. Who were these people who travelled all throughout Europe yet lived in Russia? Who did their best to remain anonymous and who made little effort to make history seem interesting? But it is precise-ly the unspectacular nature of the find which turns the author’s research in the Russian context into something new: «Everyone else had a family made up of people participating in history; mine was made up only of their tenants». Destined to become victims of persecution and repression, they all still managed to survive the 20th century. How was that possible? This is the question and point of departure for Marija Stepanova’s first great work of prose.
In dialogue with W.G. Sebald, imbued with a passion for thought and a wonderfully soft, poetic voice derived from sensual as well as intellectual observations, Stepanova assembles her found pieces into a panorama of an entire age. At its heart lives a large family of doctors, architects, librar-ians, accountants, and engineers, unheroic individuals who did not attach themselves to any great project but who in uncivilized, violent times attempted to live quiet, civilized lives
Regional Control Over Compliance with the Requirements of the Legislation of the Russian Federation in the Field of Children’s Recreation and Health
No full textThis article discusses issues related to the emergence of a new type of control from January 1, 2017, namely, regional control over compliance with the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of organization of recreation and rehabilitation of children. The subjects of control are identified. It is noted that the lack of a clear wording of the subject of control impedes the effective implementation of the activities of its entities and creates the possibility of double control of children's recreation organizations and their recovery by officials of various public authorities. The author formulated a proposal to eliminate a gap in the legislation related to the absence of a Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offense, which provides for administrative liability for violation of the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of organization of recreation and recreation for children
CNPY2 protects against ER stress and is expressed by corticostriatal neurons together with CTIP2 in a mouse model of Huntington’s disease
No full textCanopy Homolog 2 (CNPY2) is an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) localized protein belonging to the CNPY gene family. We show here that CNPY2 is protective against ER stress induced by tunicamycin in neuronal cells. Overexpression of CNPY2 enhanced, while downregulation of CNPY2 using shRNA expression, reduced the viability of neuroblastoma cells after tunicamycin. Likewise, recombinant CNPY2 increased survival of cortical neurons in culture after ER stress. CNPY2 reduced the activating transcription factor 6 (ATF6) branch of ER stress and decreased the expression of CCAT/Enhancer-Binding Protein Homologous Protein (CHOP) involved in cell death. Immunostaining using mouse brain sections revealed that CNPY2 is expressed by cortical and striatal neurons and is co-expressed with the transcription factor, COUPTF-interacting protein 2 (CTIP2). In transgenic N171-82Q mice, as a model for Huntington's disease (HD), the number of CNPY2-immunopositive neurons was increased in the cortex together with CTIP2. In the striatum, however, the number of CNPY2 decreased at 19 weeks of age, representing a late-stage of pathology. Striatal cells in culture were shown to be more susceptible to ER stress after downregulation of CNPY2. These results demonstrate that CNPY2 is expressed by corticostriatal neurons involved in the regulation of movement. CNPY2 enhances neuronal survival by reducing ER stress and is a promising factor to consider in HD and possibly in other brain diseases
GABI-Kat SimpleSearch: new features of the Arabidopsis thaliana T-DNA mutant database
No full textKleinbölting N, Huep G, Klotgen A, Viehöver P, Weisshaar B. GABI-Kat SimpleSearch: new features of the Arabidopsis thaliana T-DNA mutant database. Nucleic Acids Research. 2012;40(D1):D1211-D1215.T-DNA insertion mutants are very valuable for reverse genetics in Arabidopsis thaliana. Several projects have generated large sequence-indexed collections of T-DNA insertion lines, of which GABI-Kat is the second largest resource worldwide. User access to the collection and its Flanking Sequence Tags (FSTs) is provided by the front end SimpleSearch (http://www.GABI-Kat.de). Several significant improvements have been implemented recently. The database now relies on the TAIRv10 genome sequence and annotation dataset. All FSTs have been newly mapped using an optimized procedure that leads to improved accuracy of insertion site predictions. A fraction of the collection with weak FST yield was re-analysed by generating new FSTs. Along with newly found predictions for older sequences about 20 000 new FSTs were included in the database. Information about groups of FSTs pointing to the same insertion site that is found in several lines but is real only in a single line are included, and many problematic FST-to-line links have been corrected using new wet-lab data. SimpleSearch currently contains data from ∼71 000 lines with predicted insertions covering 62.5% of the 27 206 nuclear protein coding genes, and offers insertion allele-specific data from 9545 confirmed lines that are available from the Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre
Effect of hydrogen on the deformation development in titanium alloy of the Ti-Al-V system under creep
No full text(Table 1) Age and U and Th isotopes in bottom sediments from Core VER-99-1-St2, Baikal Lake
No full textRelative errors are shown for 1 sigma based on 10 measurements. Extracts have been recovered by 8% (0.7 M) water solution of NH4HCO3
(Table 2) Isotopic ratio 234U/238U in bottom sediments from Core VER-99-1-St2, Baikal Lake
No full text(Table 2) Isotopic ratio 234U/238U in bottom sediments from Core VER-99-1-St2, Baikal Lak
Borovichskiy Uyezd of Novgorod Governorate in Studies of First Russian Soil Scientists and Materials of General Land Surveying
No full textThe results of comparative analysis research of the first Russian soil scientists, held in Borovichskiy uyezd of Novgorod governorate in the late 19th century, with the materials of General land surveying of the late 18th century are presented. The relevance of the work is determined by insufficient knowledge of the topic and by the parameters of fertility of the land changing during the centuries. The author reveals the peculiarities of soil research in this region since the late 19th century, focuses on typical features of their description given according to the scientific achievements of that time. Special attention is paid to the comparison of the results of field researches of soil scientists in the area of certain villages with an electronic database compiled by the author, that characterizes the soil in the materials of the general land surveying. It is proved that the ranking of soil types by soil scientists in the late 19th century coincides with information about soil in the materials ofgeneral land surveying of the late 18th century. The wide use of soil descriptions in the subsequent rural studies is highlighted. Scientific novelty of the work consists in the fact that it for the first time systematized, summarized and mapped field survey results of the first Russian soil scientists and general land surveying by the example of Borovichskiy uyezd of Novgorod governorate
Utopian clothing: the futurist and constructivist overalls in the early 1920s’
No full text‘Can fashion start from zero?’ is a question that, as observed by theorists, historians and curators, ultimately haunts those radical sartorial projects embodying a ‘new’ vision of the world. In the experimental overalls designed at the beginning of the twentieth century by Thayaht in Italy, and Stepanova, Rodchenko and Popova in Russia, it is possible to follow and progressively unfold the aspiration to a total renovation and re-organization of life. The differences between the artistic contexts to which these artists belong – Italian Futurism and Russian Constructivism - have often induced critics to separately discuss their sartorial proposals, overlooking their points of convergence. Within this article, the overalls by Thayaht and the Russian Constructivists are instead analysed in relation to each other, as agents of change, or rather as instances of a ‘utilitarian outrage’ (Davis, 1992). In examining their biographies, the article questions the newness of these creations, the rhetoric of the ‘new’ that accompanied them, and their status as ‘anti-fashion’ projects. Combining material culture with cultural history, it argues that their iconoclasm and utopian potential, resides precisely in their proposing a rationalization of clothing, and in ‘questioning the very fashion project itself’ (Wilson, 2003), in both its symbolic and tangible presence. Finally, on the basis of archival research and interviews conducted at the Thayaht-RAM Archive, Florence, the characterization of Thayaht’s tuta as a Futurist creation, which has often been taken for granted, is reconsidered and problematized further
Motiv želanija v "Razgovore o Dante" Osipa Mandel’štama: zametki na pol’jah novogo kommentarija L. G. Stepanovoj i G. A. Levintona [Il motivo del desiderio nella "Conversazione su Dante" di Osip Mandel’štam: appunti sui margini del nuovo commento di L. G. Stepanova e G. A. Levinton]
No full textMost of the critical works on Mandelstam’s "Conversation about Dante" written in the last thirty years analyse its autobiographical dimension and the tenets of Mandelstam’s innovative poetics. G.A. Levinton’s and L.G. Stepanova’s commentary that accompanies the 2010 edition of the "Conversation" is an original contribution to Mandelstam scholarship inasmuch as it is the first scholarly work to consider some of Mandelstam’s key arguments in the light of certain strands of Dante criticism in Italy. In particular, in their commentary Levinton and Stepanova look at the theme of desire, one of the narrative structures mentioned in the "Conversation", which occupies an important place in Dante’s "Commedia". The present article complements Levinton’s and Stepanova’s commentary. Its aim is to show that by developing his own ideas about Dante, Mandelstam, for the first time in the history of the reception of Dante’s poem in Russia, began to intuitively develop an understanding of the actual structural elements of the "Commedia", thus foreshadowing the work of contemporary Dante scholars in the Western world
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