Dublin Core
Titre
Petersburg / Petersburg : Novel and city, 1900 - 1921
Sujet
Petersburg, Pétersbourg, St. Petersburg, Saint-Pétersbourg, Saint Petersburg, Bely Andrei, Biély Andreï, Bély André, littérature, twentieth century, vigtième siècle, Matich Olga
Description
Abstract from the publisher :
“Petersburg”/Petersburg studies the book and the city against and through each other. It begins with new readings of the novel—as a detective story inspired by bomb-throwing terrorists, as a representation of the aversive emotion of disgust, and as a painterly avant-garde text—stressing the novel’s phantasmagoric and apocalyptic vision of the city. Taking a cue from Petersburg’s narrator, the rest of this volume (and the companion Web site, stpetersburg.berkeley.edu) explores the city from vantage points that have not been considered before—from its streetcars and iconic art-nouveau office buildings to the slaughterhouse on the city fringes. From poetry and terrorist memoirs, photographs and artwork, maps and guidebooks of that period, the city emerges as a living organism, a dreamworld in flux, and a junction of modernity and modernism.