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Archival Strategies and Literary Memory in Vsevolod Nekrasov’s Legacy
This essay is based on personal testimonies and observations of the unofficial Russian poet Vsevolod Nekrasov’s creative process, resulting from over 30 years of personal communication with the poet. It is focused on an analysis of how the concept of the archive is understood within literary criticism and the theoretical articles authored by Nekrasov. Additionally, it explores how archival practices are reflected in his poetry. Nekrasov’s engagement with archival poetics and literary memory is multifaceted, encompassing his personal functional environment, which involves the preservation of items, drafts, card files, and folders. Nekrasov’s notion of the archive also serves as a working condition, a substantial element in debates about underground culture, and a lens through which he views both past literature and his contemporaneous authors. Furthermore, Nekrasov employs the archive as a method for describing the literary process and the nature of art.
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