An Evening with Calliope

4 hrs. 15 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Irina Stepanovskaya

Narrator Natalia Rostova

Description

In the reading room of the most ordinary library, there is a monthly meeting of a literary circle. Everything follows the familiar routine: authors read their texts in turn, and fellow members immediately discuss and break down what they’ve heard. This would have been the case this time as well, if it weren’t for the fact that three strangers happened to be among the participants— a newspaper journalist, a bio-physics graduate student with a mysterious device, and Calliope herself, the muse of epic poetry.

Does writing make a person happier? The question isn’t at all rhetorical, especially when it seems that there are already more people writing than reading. In this sometimes fantastical, ironic, and at times sad yet unmistakably true story, everyone will find their own answer.