С позиции свидетеля

V teorii khorosho izvestno, chto travma ne poddaetsi͡a popytkam govoritʹ o neĭ napri͡amui͡u. Vmeste s tem travmaticheskiĭ opyt nastoĭchivo trebuet bytʹ rasskazannym i razdelennym. Ėtot sbornik obʺedini͡aet avtofikt͡sionalʹnye teksty, v kotorykh lichnoe perezhivanie stanovitsi͡a formoĭ svidetelʹstva. Reprezentat͡sii͡a voĭny, ėmigrat͡sii i utraty v ėtikh tekstakh izbegaet zavershennykh narrativnykh struktur. Naprotiv, avtory i avtorki otkazyvai͡utsi͡a ot klassicheskikh zhanrovykh i povestvovatelʹnykh form, predpochitai͡a poisk i͡azyka, sposobnogo uderzhatʹ i osmyslitʹ transformirui͡ushchiĭ opyt. Avtofikt͡sionalʹnye rasskazy, ėsse, poėmy i pʹesy, napisannye studentami i studentkami proekta Smolny Beyond Borders, ne vsegda stremi͡atsi͡a k ėsteticheskoĭ t͡selostnosti. Ikh zadacha - sokhranitʹ sled perezhitogo i razdelitʹ ego s chitatelem. Ėtot sbornik - svoego roda dokument ėpokhi, fiksirui͡ushchiĭ vnimanie k chuzhomu ui͡azvimomu opytu. Larisa Muravʹeva, prepodavatelʹnit͡sa, issledovatelʹnit͡sa sovremennoĭ literatury, pisatelʹnit͡sa.

In theory, it is well known that trauma does not lend itself to attempts to talk about it directly. At the same time, the traumatic experience insistently demands to be told and shared. This collection brings together self-fictional texts in which personal experience becomes a form of testimony. The representation of war, emigration, and loss in these texts avoids complete narrative structures. On the contrary, authors and women authors reject classical genre and narrative forms, preferring to search for a language capable of retaining and comprehending transformative experiences. Autofiction stories, essays, poems, and plays written by students of the Smolny Beyond Borders project do not always strive for aesthetic integrity. Their task is to preserve the trace of their experiences and share it with the reader. This collection is a kind of document of the era, capturing attention to the vulnerable experience of others. Larisa Muravyeva, teacher, researcher of modern literature, writer.