It is the inventory of a great love. The couple experienced 31 summers together, undertook 42 trips during this time, bought four kitchens, played 912 games of Halma and much more. But now the first-person narrator in Julia Schoch’s autofictional novel “The Lovers of the Century” (dtv) is exhausted. She doesn’t just think about separation, she finally wants to implement it after a long struggle. In her recently published novel, which has already received rave reviews from critics, Julia Schoch describes the phases of a relationship and a family in many layers of memory. As in her previous novel “Das Vorkomnis”, the Potsdam author also analyzes the social conditions, especially of female biographies, and asks: What is really important in life? Perhaps above all what he quoted in the book beatles-Song summons: “Love, love, love.”
Julia Schoch, reading on Wednesday, March 1st, 7.30 p.m., Seidlvilla, Nikolaiplatz 1b, tukan-kreis.de