Chronicles of Forgotten Dreams

Smart and delicate literary fiction for movie lovers—unlike anything in Russian literature

Elena Dolgopyat is a prose writer, screenwriter, and keeper of the handwritten archive at the Cinema Museum. Author of many books, including collections of stories “Another Life,” “Homeland,” “Russian,” “Thin Glasses,” “Wardrobe Clerk.” Finalist of the “National Bestseller—2017” award.

Her new book “Chronicles of Forgotten Dreams” includes personal notes about cinema and the Cinema Museum (Truffaut, Murnau, Bunuel alongside “Doctor House” and “Avenue of Broken Lanterns”) and stories where dreams intertwine with reality, and the past with the present. Yesterday’s life becomes a dream. An album with yesterday’s photos is like a herbarium. The face in a photograph awakens the memory of a living person. While reading “Chronicles of Forgotten Dreams,” you can see living faces behind the words. That’s why it was written.