“Autobiographicity”
Another observation made during the data analysis is that most stories written by Anastasia in English are to some extent based on her autobiographical memories. In “The Bench”, my …show more content…
“balalaika”, “perestroika”,” babushka”. Anastasia stated that she included them in her narrative to depict Russian reality in a way that could be understood by foreign readers. Familiar and recognizable concepts should have helped her to do so. However, she came to a conclusion that her attempt was not quite successful. Some parts of Russian life are unfathomable; some words are untranslatable; thus, it takes a lot of time and effort to create a true image of Russia that will not be “touristy”, but at the same time could be appreciated by