ABSTRACT

It is essential that we be attentive to the trifling ethnographic details of that epoch and to its monuments, because in the infinitely small, as in the infinitely large (its haughty equal), the particularities of the most peripheral literary texts of the epoch can be perused, and most valuable of all, become visible. This new visibility brings us into contact with the unconscious possibilities, which were only in part embodied in the literature of the time. Moreover these possibilities allow us to escape from the all-pervasiveness of public speech in the world-image of the Stalinist epoch. It's as though the order of the visible contained in itself unfathomed reserves of the unconscious.