Reading through The Delayed Tears : Texts of Normalisation Period and their Melancholy

Abstract

The conflicting characteristics of normalization are the result of the confrontation of different types of memory. At the same time, texts from this period offer very complicated view of the past, which seems to be incompatible with any recollection.

Keywords

• normalisation
• representation of the past
• memory
• nostalgia
• melancholy