Literature and Culture Seminar: The Quadratura of Myth; or Thirty White Piglets on the Road of Fate: Alexandra Petrova on Migrations, Rome and Her Novel "Appendix"

Date and Time

February 8, 2018
04:15PM - 04:15PM EST

Location

CGIS S-354

Alexandra Petrova was born in St. Petersburg when it still was called Leningrad. She studied Russian language and literature at the University of Tartu. In 1993 she emigrated to Jerusalem, and since 1998 she has lived in Rome.  

She is the author of three volumes of poetry: Point of Detachment [Liniia otryva] (1994), Residence Permit  or A View on Existence [Vid na zhitel’stvo] (1999)  and Only the Trees [Tolko derev’ia] (2008).  She has also written Dolly’s Shepherds [Pastukhi Dolly], a philosophical operetta in ten acts (2001). Her novel Appendix appeared in 2016 and has been the subject of widespread critical discussion and much praise. It won the Andrei Belyi Prize in 2016. 

Note: seminar will be given in Russian.

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