The thesis proposes the investigation of the various forms of understanding memory in the literary work of Monika Maron (Berlin/ Germany, 1941-), specially in Pawels Briefe [Pavels Letters] (1999). With eloquent wealth of treatises, the author’s work inspired different forms of understanding and questioning the subject of memory. Maron uses a family archive to create a post-memorial narrative and builds her historical –fictional- memorial book with pictures, letters and literary imagination. Pawels Briefe is put as a central piece in a broader view of Maron’s work. Subjects like post-memory, critical memory, generational narrative, trauma and grief are discussed, compared and questioned here. So are the issuesregarding the reception of memory texts. Addressing the juxtaposition of images and narrative, I support that photographic images represent not only an aide-memoire but also the inlcusion of silence in prose. Based on the works of Rancière and his arguments in favor of the representative potentiality of literature and questioning the eulogy of the irrepresentable, its objective is to include silence as a force in the field of language, instead of identifying it as something that is beyond it. In Pawels Briefe, by Monika Maron, this minute’s silence can be identified in the insertion of photographic pictures.