THE TRAUMA OF THE PAST AND THE WAYS TO OVERCOME IT IN THE MODERN "FAMILY SAGA" (BASED ON THE BOOK "MEMORY OF MEMORY" BY MARIA M. STEPANOVA)

The article examines the problem of portraying the trauma of the past in modern Russian literature based on the material of Maria Stepanova's book "Memory of Memory". The research focuses on the transformation of the genre of the family epic, which in recent prose loses the function of continuous narration and becomes a space of critical reflection of memory. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the main categories such as trauma, silence and archiving, which form the structural and semantic basis of the text. The shock in Stepanova's work is manifested in the impossibility of a comprehensive narrative and the violation of the transmission of memory from generation to generation. Silence is seen not as a lack of information, but as a form of historically conditioned traumatic memory associated with experiences of exile and self-censorship. Archives, in turn, are understood as a paradoxical space between memory and oblivion, fixing facts, but not restoring lost experience. The article concludes that overcoming the trauma of "remembering a memory" is understood not as symbolic healing or reconciliation with the past, but as recognition of the incompleteness of memory and the moral responsibility of a modern subject in relation to the historical experience of the 20 century.