{"product_id":"non-memoirs-9781564789969","title":"Non-Memoirs","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne afternoon in December 1992, in Tartu, Estonia, Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman reluctantly sat down to dictate his memoirs to Elena Pogosian, his assistant, over a pot of tea. It was to be the first of twelve dictation sessions during which the initial draft of Non-Memoirs was created. The sessions were spread out over that winter and into the spring of 1993--the last spring of Lotman's life. The result of the process is this book - a book of memories and recollections of a good part of 20th century, divided into seven sections. The five shorter sections concern themselves with a single anecdote or theme (lice on the front, an encounter with a hare, a \"totally Bulgakovian\" episode, a visit from the KGB, Tartu School politics); the two longer sections provide the narrative backbone of the memoirs, tending to treat the passage of time, rather than a single event (school and frontline life, the end of the war and postwar university life).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eYuri M. Lotman was born in 1922 in what was then Petrograd, Russia, and died in 1993 in Tartu, Estonia. He was founder of the Moscow-Tartu School and the initiator of the discipline of cultural semiotics. His works translated into English include \"Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture\" and \"The Structure of the Artistic Text.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473823207698,"sku":"9781564789969","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c1827e62-8a70-491f-a4a1-17bf670cda11.jpg?v=1730203834","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/non-memoirs-9781564789969","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}