October. 2017. No. 6

What do we remember? How? Why? And what - eliminates the memories? The authors of the June Spaces of the “banner” are returning to these issues again and again - starting with Natalia Ivanova, whose article "Truth and Lie of Memoirs" opens the magazine and ending with critic Yulia Podlubnova, who wrote the review of the most interesting archival publications that came out in recently to the heading. literary publications.
A number dedicated to memory is really reminiscent of a time machine: the path to personal memories, "its" past" lies through the gloomy forest of the past historical, with which it is not always clear what to do and in what language to speak about it today?
About this - a poetic selection of Vitaly Pukhanov, which is called "on the sunset of the Soviet empire". His lines" they say: let"s leave it in the past, // or: forget the past .// and move into the future light. // And from birth we go into the past // and the past absorbs us as an ocean "become a kind of leitmotif, and the sunset of the Soviet empire is a kind of reference point for fictional and non -informed narratives