The Novel of Memory in Data and Interpretations: Subgenres, Generations, Contents

This article sets out to present the design and output of the research project MEMORO: The Novel of Memory in Postcommunism: Subgenres, Generations, Transnational Networks. The project aimed at providing a qualitative and quantitative research of the novel of memory in the Romanian literary field after 1989, using recent theories and methodologies from the field of literary and memory studies. After delineating the genre and its five subgenres, the article elaborates on statistical analyses based on a dataset containing 230 novels published between 1990-2022 and authored by 168 male and female writers. The last part draws conclusions regarding the potential of literature in general and of the novel in particular to intervene in the society at large.