TY - JOUR N2 - The subject of the analysis and interpretation of this article consists in philosophy and poetics of photography as a medium of memory in Maria Stepanova’s novel Pamyati Pamyati [In Memory of Memory]. Meanwhile, it is aimed at revealing a unique attitude of the novel’s author towards photography and its derivatives as a medium of memory and yet towards memory itself as a mandatory obligation in its essence for all the generations after the Holocaust. In a given context the notion of postmemory is binding and, hence, a separate part of the article is devoted to it. In view of the centuries-old and universal interest around the phenomenon of memory, mainly in the existential context, at the beginning of the article the emphasis is solely put on several selected aspects of it as articulated by Aristotle, Plato, Saint Augustine, Walter Benjamin and Paul Ricoeur. Respectively, the following terms are addressed by them: memoria, aisthesis, gesture of passage or picture – monument. In the article it has been shown that Stepanova is fascinated by the truth of time, the premonition of the Holocaust. She searched the shadows of the past on the faces and in the events captured in the pre-war film frames in such a way that one can experience his connection with that world, discover himself internally in that structure because, as she claims, her text is the novel about non-memory. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/116788/PDF/2020-02-SOR-04-Tarkowska.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/116788 PY - 2020 IS - No 2 EP - 260 DO - 10.24425/slo.2020.133659 KW - memory KW - postmemory KW - photography KW - gesture of passage KW - viewer’s dictatorship A1 - Tarkowska, Joanna PB - Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN VL - vol. LXIX DA - 2020.09.15 T1 - Memorabilia by Maria Stepanova in the Novel "Pamyati Pamyati" ("In Memory of Memory") – a Photography SP - 247 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/116788 T2 - Slavia Orientalis ER -