Reconstituirea realităţii Gulagului prin digitalizarea jurnalului detenţiei lui Alexei Marinat [Articol]

Abstract

Perceived through the lenses of the author’s torture and incarceration, Alexei Marinat’s confessional literature provides the reader with a legacy: the right to freedom and to remembrance, the restitution of Gulag reality. The memoirs of the diarist A. Marinat tend to show the full extent of the phenomenon of alienation from the perspective of a survivor who managed to record the terrible realities of communist persecution, recovering the memory of the communist Gulag and acting as a true advocate of the individuals who suffered from this regime. This paper will give an overview of A. Marinat’s Gulag “model”, related to the famous studies of literary critics and historians such as Leona Toker, Anne Applebaum, likewise reflecting the contribution of the memorialists Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Varlam Shalamov, Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya to the knowledge and awareness of the Gulag literature. The fundamental relevance of the digitization of A. Marinat’s memoirs will also be examined, analysing the way the digital technologies serve to reconstruct the history and reality of the Gulag.