The Roots and Soot of Time in Tanja Maljartschuk’s “Forgottenness”

Matthew Teutsch
6 min readJun 23, 2024

In the previous post, I started examining some of the themes in Tanja Maljartschuk’s Forgottenness. Today, I want to continue that exploration by looking at two specific passages in the novel that detail the passage of time and why we need to think about history and the ways it impacts our present. One of these moments occurs when Lypynskyi decides to give a history lecture in…

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Matthew Teutsch

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