Русские в Риме в начале XXI века в романе „Аппендикс” Александры Петровой
Russians in Rome at the Beginning of the XXI Century in the Novel „Appendix” by Alexandra Petrova

Summary/Abstract: The article investigates the Diaspora theme in Appendix, the debut novel by the poet Alexandra Petrova. Published in 2016, Appendix was awarded the Andrei Belyi Prize the same year. It is a novel with a complex structure and plot, a multitude of narrative lines, and a rich, erudite system of quotations. The main theme is the troubled condition of the “Other”, an immigrant, outsider who finds himself in an unknown foreign city, in this case it is Rome, which itself was founded by a “stranger”. Petrova takes up the Virgilian theme of Aeneas as an explicit reference to the fate of the Trojan hero as an image of immigrants Rome. Petrova is one of the voices of the new Russia Abroad even though she remains in many ways a voice on the threshold.

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