Sankt Peterburg in oblikovanje spomina

Abstract

Spomin obravnavamo kot »sposobnost « (Ricoeur) pripovedovanja o preteklih dogodkih. Med pretekle dogodke umeščamo tudi tekstovne pojave. Sanktpeterburški spomin je po eni strani zgodba o tem, kako so bili pripovedovani zgodovinski in vsakodnevni dogodki, po drugi pa o tem, kako se je iz različnih pripovedi izoblikoval ustaljeni spomin. Sanktpeterburška kultura je nasičena s »protislovji« in »nasprotji«, ki jih je sicer mogoče preseči, obenem pa je prav v njih mogoče zaznati klice sodobnejšega mišljenja o stvarnosti, ki je osnovana na razliki.

Memory is the “capacity” (Ricoeur) to recount past time. Past events include textual events. The memory of St Petersburg is the story of how historic and everyday events have been recounted and the history of how a shared memory has been formed from diverse narratives. The city's culture is full of “contradictions” and “contrasts”. In one sense they may be observed in terms of how they are overcome, in another they may be viewed positively as the manifestation of another way of perceiving reality based on difference.