This essay analyses the novel Veselye pochorony (1997) by the Russian writer Ljudmila Ulickaja, investigating the relationship between the life experiences of the characters and the area of New York where they live. The main character is Alek, a talented painter who knows he is going to die very soon. Alek is surrounded and supported by several Russian women seeking a new identity after their immigration. The plot of the novel is developed in the big American city which sometimes has claustrophobic features and sometimes appears as a surrealistic space. The author of this essay stresses how the Big Apple of the novel represents a symbolic space, a limbo, a transit area, a threshold of different cultures and contrasting lifestyles. The city ...
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Margarita Marinova’s text is excerpted from her new work Transnational Russian-American Travel Writi...
The article analyzes spatial represenatation of New York as presented in Janusz Głowacki’s works aft...
The subject of the article is the analysis of the image of Kiev, presented in Mikhail Bulgakov’s feu...
The essay analyses the atypical concept of border in the povest' by Ljudmila Ulickaja 'Veselye pocho...
The essay analyzes a specific case of Ukrainian writer Yaroslav Melnik whose literary career is ofte...
Mariam Petrosyan, painter, graphic artist and cartoonist, transcends three alphabets embedded in the...
The article addresses the Chernivtsi polite literature as a constituent of the 'city myth'. The auth...
The article deals with the urban spaces in the perspective of the cultural narratives. The main thes...
This dissertation examines representations of America in three collections of essays by Russian writ...
The novel White Shanghai tells the story of the life of Russian immigrants in China in the 1920s and...
The article presents the cultural dichotomy “the capital — the provinces” in a diachronic per-specti...
Julya Rabinowichs „Spaltkopf“ (2008) und Lena Goreliks „Die Listensammlerin“ (2013) sind Migrationsr...
The subject of the article is an analysis of the three aspects of depicting urban space of Eastern U...
Kievan palimpsestThis article is devoted to the “Kievan text” in literature of the 1910s...
Celem artykułu jest próba ukazania "spojrzenia turysty" na nowojorski mikser kulturowy. Odnosząc się...
Margarita Marinova’s text is excerpted from her new work Transnational Russian-American Travel Writi...
The article analyzes spatial represenatation of New York as presented in Janusz Głowacki’s works aft...
The subject of the article is the analysis of the image of Kiev, presented in Mikhail Bulgakov’s feu...