Atmiņu vieta un vietas vēsture: Lubes ūdensdzirnavas Ainas Zemdegas dzīvē un daiļradē

The present article focuses on where the writer Aina Zemdega (1924-2006) spent her childhood - the Lube watermill - in the context of recollections and the history of a place. This place has been viewed in the transformations caused by the age, including its transformation during Soviet rule. In the autumn of 1944, with her parents and sisters, Aina Zemdega, a refugee, came to Sweden; since 1950, she lived in exile in Canada. Her birth house became the property of the Soviet collective farm (kolkhoz) Cīņa - the birthplace of the writer, in a way, lost its local identity and personality. On the one hand, the Lube Watermill was subjected to a gradual process of becoming a ruin, on the other - it was untouched by the change “lived on” in the novel Toreiz Lubes dzirnavās (Back Then in the Lube Watermill; 1979), which received the description by the author herself - a dream about the reality. Both these sides were woven together by the time when Latvia regained its independence. Since 1991, several months each year, the writer has spent in her father’s home, and over eight years, the Lube watermill has been fully restored. The theoretical framework of the present article is formed by archive studies, analysis of a literary text, the study of the historical age, as well as the concepts of literary geography, as well as those of literary space and historical space, and concepts of place memory and place history, opening potential research opportunities indicated in the article and usable in the future research.