Два города (Москва и Берлин) в эссе и интервью Владимира Сорокина
Two Cities (Moscow and Berlin) in Vladimir Sorokin’s Essays and Interviews

Summary/Abstract: The study is devoted to the analysis of images and metapoetic codes associated with two cities — Moscow and Berlin. In Vladimir Sorokin’s epitexts, i.e. interviews and a documentary film about him (Sorokin Trip), as well as in his collection of essays (Normal History), geographical names carry concise symbolic meanings, with the names of the two cities often becoming the starting point for metaphysical reflections. Sorokin links the ontological opposition (or lack thereof) between the spaces outside and inside to the relationship between the individual and the authority. One of the key points of comparison between Moscow and Berlin is the different approaches to the past, to traumatic historical experience.

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