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    Published : 2025-10-14
    Vol. 73 No. 7 (2025)

    The Soviet Union Took Away the Memory and Memories of Many People. Tanya Kalytenko’s Novel Antero as an Attempt to Reconstruct Memory (Selected Aspects)

    Marta Kaczmarczyk

    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8840-5509

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh257307.6

    Abstract

    The article is an attempt to analyze the memory situation of Ukrainians in relation to the events of World War II based on Tanya Kalytenko’s novel Antero. The lack of intergenerational transmission of memory, the use of the strategy of silence as a way of taming traumatic experiences is the cause of destabilization and identity rupture felt by Olena, a representative of the third generation. The protagonist of Kalytenko’s novel tries to reconstruct the empty space in her and her family’s biography when she sets off on a journey to Finland in search of the traces of her ancestor, where her great-grandfather stayed with the Red Army during World War II. The desire to reconstruct the family myth threatens the integrity of the protagonist’s identity, as it may result in the loss of her own history and memory. The topic taken up by Kalytenko testifies to Aleida Assmann’s concept of dialogical memory, which is gaining more and more recognition in Ukrainian literature. This fact is worth researching.

    Keywords:

    memory, identity, memory reconstruction, Ukrainian literature, World War II



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    Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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