Lidiya Yakovlevna Ginzburg (1902–1990) is an outstanding Russian writer and well-known literary scholar whose works are studied in universities and are of great interest to all lovers of the history of Russian literature and poetry.
Her audiobook “Notes of a Blockade Person” presents one of the valuable testimonies of a person’s borderline experience who found herself in a besieged city. And this person—within her everyday life—is a woman. In the text, the author constantly addresses the contrast between female and male perspectives on what is happening. The second part of the audiobook consists of works written in 1942–1945, titled “Prose of the War Years.” They belong to the kind of writing that Ginzburg later called “intermediate literature,” since it combines both documentary and artistic elements at the same time.