About the book: 2016 / The book by the famous St. Petersburg literary critic B.V. Averin is dedicated to the autobiographical genre. The author focuses on the creative process and the artist’s search for the true “I”, the phenomenon of memory as a special kind of spiritual activity. Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory and the mother of all muses, brings together in the book such diverse writers as Nabokov and Fr. P. Florensky, Bunin and A. Bely, Vyach. Ivanov and L. Shestov.