Metamodern urban experience in the anthology of topophilic prose V Pitere zhit’
Metamodern urban experience in the anthology of topophilic prose V Pitere zhit’

Summary/Abstract: This article applies metamodernism as a new discursive practice for interpreting contemporaneityto the anthology V Pitere zhit’: ot Dvortsovoi do Sadovoi, ot Gangutskoi do Shpalernoi. Lichnyeistorii (To Live in Petersburg: From Dvortsovaia to Sadovaia, from Gangutskaia to Shpalernaia.Personal stories, 2017) edited by Natalia Sokolovskaia and Elena Shubina. It demonstrates thatdespite the plurality of authorial styles in the collection, it advocates a homogeneous metamodernmode of urban experience within which postmodern anti-anthropocentrism is substitutedby the affirmation of the feeling (affective) subject, and the postmodern ahistorical presentismis replaced by the pursuit of self-situating into the historical time, allowing for a valorizationof Being through a subjectivity affirming dialogue with the historical and contemporary Other.

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