Russians in Rome at the Beginning of the XXI Century in the Novel "Appendix" by Alexandra Petrova
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31261/RSL.2024.34.08Keywords:
Appendix, Alexandra Petrova, Russian Emigration, Russia Abroad, post-Soviet literature, RomeAbstract
The article investigates the Diaspora theme in Appendix, the debut novel by 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’, the immigrant, the outsider who finds himself in an unknown foreign city, in this case Rome, itself founded by a ‘stranger’. Petrova takes up the Virgilian theme of Aeneas as an explicit reference to the fate of the Trojan hero as 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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