In Memory of Memory - Maria Stepanova Mustafa tells the younger man

Mustafa tells the younger man the disturbing story of his own life in London after the First World War

neglected his books

and isolation

This self-taught intellectual rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age

what is reality

In Memory of Memory - Maria Stepanova Mustafa tells the younger manWith the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. Dipping into various forms