Bøger af Maria Stepanova

Da fasteren dør, går Maria Stepanova på opdagelse i hendes lejlighed, der er fyldt med ting, men i virkeligheden ikke fortæller ret meget om sin beboer. Det forhindrer dog ikke Stepanova i ihærdigt at søge efter spor af hele sin umiddelbart usynlige slægt i Ruslands dramatiske historie. Kan vi forstå os selv uden at kende de mennesker og steder, vi stammer fra? Og hvad betyder det for os, hvis der ikke er nogen tilbage til at fortælle om fortiden, og hvis slægtsforskningen heller ikke fører til ret mange håndgribelige resultater? Disse store spørgsmål undersøger Stepanova i sit rummelige og ambitiøse prosaværk, som går i dialog med erindringsforskning, filosofi, kunst, populærkultur og forfattere som Marcel Proust, W.G. Sebald, Osip Mandelsjtam og Marina Tsvetajeva. Ydermere sætter hun sig den udfordring ikke at få ejerfornemmelser over fortidens mennesker, steder og genstande, men så vidt muligt lade dem tale for sig selv. I mange tilfælde må tavse billeder og genstande fortolkes, og Stepanova er udfordret af det mørke og de hemmeligheder, der ligger over store dele af slægtens historie, ikke bare som følge af dens jødiske ophav, men også på grund af diverse krige og sovjettidens politiske omvæltninger. Til minde om erindringen i 2018 modtaget Ruslands store Bolsjaja Kniga-pris var shortlistet til den Internationale Bookerpris i 2021."En forfatter der sikkert i mange år fremover vil blive nævnt i samme åndedrag som Polens Olga Tokarczuk og Belarus' Svetlana Aleksijevitj." THE GUARDIAN"Et imponerende monument, som med sin fragmenterede form formår at flette de store historiske begivenheder sammen med familiehistorien."❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ POLITIKEN"De seks stjerner virker som et nærigt lysdrys på et enormt himmelhvælv."⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ JYLLANDS-POSTEN" Stepanovas enestående familieportræt er gennemsyret af en sjælden intellektuel nysgerrighed og en vidunderlig, lavmælt poetisk stemme." BOOKERPRIS-NOMINERINGEN

With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family managed to survive the twentieth century.

På vej til et litteraturarrangement strander forfatteren M. i en fremmed by, hun har mistet sin telefon, og ingen ved hvor hun befinder sig. Nogen tid forinden er hun flygtet fra sit hjemland på grund af krig. Hun lever nu som i et limbo, fyldt af skam og fortvivlelse over krigen, afskåret fra sit hjem og sit sprog. Ny fyldes hun af en berusende frihedsfølelse. På dette ukendte sted kan hun være hvem hun vil, gøre hvad som helst. Men minderne vil ikke slippe hende. Hun bliver hele tiden fanget ind af billeder fra barndommen, det sidste bånd til en verden der er ved at forsvinde.Pressen om Til minde om erindringen:”et unikt prosaværk (…) De seks stjerner virker som et nærigt lysdrys på et enormt himmelhvælv.”(Seks stjerner, JYLLANDS-POSTEN)”et imponerende monument, som med sin fragmentariske form formår at flette de store historiske begivenheder sammen med familiehistorien.”(Fem hjerter, POLITIKEN)”Et storværk om erindring.”INFORMATION

Russia's Maria Stepanova is a poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and the author of ten poetry collections and three books of essays. Her book-length poem Holy Winter 20/21, written in a frenzy during the pandemic, speaks of winter and war, of banishment and exile, of social isolation and existential abandonment.

The outbreak of Covid-19 cut short Maria Stepanova's 2020 stay in Cambridge. Back in Russia, she spent the ensuing months in a state of torpor-the world had withdrawn from her, time had "gone numb." When she awoke from this state, she began to read Ovid, and the shock of the pandemic dissolved into the voices and metaphors of a transformative, epochal experience. Her book-length poem Holy Winter, written in a frenzy of poetic inspiration, speaks of winter and war, of banishment and exile, of social isolation and existential abandonment. Stepanova finds sublime imagery for the process of falling silent, interweaving love letters and travelogues, Chinese verse and Danish fairy tales into a polyphonic evocation of frozen time and its slow thawing.As a poet and essayist, Stepanova was a highly influential figure for many years in Moscow's cosmopolitan literary scene until it was strangled by Putin, along with civil liberties and dissent. Like Joseph Brodsky before her, she has mastered modern poetry's rich repertoire of forms and moves effortlessly between the languages and traditions of Russian, European, and transatlantic literature, potently yet subtly creating a voice like no other.Her poetry, which here echoes verses by Pushkin and Lermontov, Mandelstam and Tsvetaeva, is not hermetic. She takes in and incorporates the confusing signals from social networks and the media, opening herself up to the voices of kindred poets like Sylvia Plath, Inger Christensen, and Anne Carson.

Maria Stepanova is one of Russia's most innovative and exciting poets and thinkers. This first full English translation of her poetry includes three recent long poems on conflict, 'Spolia' and 'War of the Beasts and the Animals', written during the Donbas conflict, and 'The Body Returns', commemorating the Centenary of the First World War.

With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century.In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various forms-essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and historical documents-Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.

Maria Stepanova is one of the most powerful and distinctive voices of Russia's first post-Soviet literary generation. The Voice Over brings together two decades of Stepanova's work, showcasing her range, virtuosity, and creative evolution.