On April 6, the Berlin Book Fair in Palais Populaire will host the presentation of Anya Getman's debut novel "Bumblebee" - about anxiety and courage during global turbulence. The book is being published as part of the NoAge publishing program "There is a meaning", which publishes new millennial prose by modern Russian-speaking authors.
The book's main character, Vera, is 24 years old, she has just broken up with her husband, got a good job and now shares an apartment with a neighbor who is a psychoanalyst. Around her, traces of the suitcase wheels of hundreds of acquaintances spread out, and social networks give conflicting advice on how to live inside a catastrophe. While Vera subscribes to news channels, unsubscribes from them and subscribes again, a contented bumblebee buzzes louder and louder inside her. Vera's anxiety finally merges with the general panic. Time after time, the girl hopes that she has found a way out, not noticing that she is walking in circles.
This story is about how anxiety imperceptibly guides a person, forces them to adapt to others, imposes guilt for trying to turn off the path. And about an important property of anxiety, which is almost never talked about: it really wants to grow and feeds on someone else's, external anxiety. It happily integrates into global cataclysms and crises - this is its authorial space. And when there is nothing suitable in the outside world, it forces a person to create cataclysms at the level of his own life.
How did Anya decide to connect her life with blogging and then literature? How did the idea for "Bumblebee" come about and is there much autobiographical in the text? What does the writer dream about and what books inspire her? We will talk about this and much more with Anya Getman at the meeting.
Moderator: Yulia Petrovpavlovskaya, editor-in-chief of the publishing program no age "It makes sense."