I'm interested in other's reviews/experiences with this book, because I initially found it so fascinating, and after about 20% in, found it really difficult to return to. I see the comparisons to WG Sebald, which I'm interested in pursuing. I'm also interested in the line from John Williams's nyt review: "This same principle of infinite significance in finite things provides Stepanova’s “In Memory of Memory” with its purpose, its emotion, its interest and its tedium." I guess it was the tedium that stopped me.

Even reading a review ("One’s tolerance for discursion will be tested here. Over the course of a few pages, Stepanova alludes to Odysseus, Orpheus, Medusa, Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag and Nabokov.") makes me want to pick up this book again! These are all topics I want to read about! Maybe I should just skim the parts of less interest to me...