Autobiography vs Photography and Memoir vs Caricature as Forms of Preserving the Author’s Memory (Dmitry S. Merezhkovsky)

• Published in: Studia litterarum Vol. 2; no. 1; pp. 10 - 21
• Main Author: Kholikov, Alexey A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences 01.01.2017
• Subjects: autobiography; caricature; D.S. Merezhkovsky; memoir; memory; photography; reception

The essay focuses on visual images as one of the means of the writer’s reception on the example of such forms of preserving memory about Dmitry S. Merezhkovsky as autobiography and photography, on the one hand, and memoir and caricature, on the other. Photographic image comes close to autobiography...