O ciszy i jej teatralności, czyli o pewnej osobliwości weneckiej audiosfery w literaturze rosyjskiej
On Silence and its Theatricality. The Experience of Venetian Silence in Selected Russian Literature

Summary/Abstract: “Venetian texts” in nineteenth-century Russia employed a certain conventional model. Its image of Venice, both visual and auditory, consisted of several consistently reproduced elements. Only at the turn of the twentieth century did more individualized works begin to emerge, breaking stereotypes, and above all offering a deeper reflection on the Venetian soundscape. Writers at tend to the city’s unique auditory space, especially the silence that dominates it. Venetian silence, despite its strangeness or even theatricality, is perceived by the artists as positive, in contrast to the bustle of tourism, which is treated as unnatural: an undesirable interference with the unique sonic environment of the city

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