Maria Stepanova Thu, 23rd May 2019, 8:00 pm Post-Memory Literature A book causes a sensation; a new genre is invented: the meta-novel. Love stories and travel logs, reflections on photography, memory and trauma are merged into an exciting essayistic narrative in Maria Stepanova’s novel Post-Memory. At the center of the story is a diverse Jewish-Russian-European family of doctors, architects, librarians, accountants and engineers who wanted to lead a quiet, unspectacular life in uncivilized and violent times. Maria Stepanova, born in in Moscow in 1972, is a poet, essayist and journalist and one of the most prominent figures of contemporary Russian literature. Languages: Russian/German