title: Postmemorial sincerity in the writing of Sergei Lebedev and Maria Stepanova
abstract: of these two authors' literary creations has appeared (see Urupin and Zhukova 2020). However, among Lebedev's novels, his debut Predel zabveniia (2010; Oblivion, 2016) has received the majority of critical attention from both Russian and Western literary scholars (see Heinritz 2017; Jandl 2020; Lunde 2020, 2022; Novikova 2021; Pola 2019; Zywert 2020; Zherber and Ertner 2018). As far as we know, People of August has very rarely been subjected to academic inquiry. 1 On the other hand, Stepanova's 
journal: World Literature Studies