"Ann Lauterbach's Saint Petersburg Notebook investigates both the psychic landscape and character of the post-soviet human and the travelling writer's own estrangement from self and time during the white nights. Her observations of Russians' muteness or lack of expressivity, the hollowness of their cultural spine, and their desire to be superficially European strangely echo the Marquis de Custine's 19th-century critical travelogue. The porous space of Petersburg, cast in oblique light, is palpable as an unsettling dream in ...
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"Ann Lauterbach's Saint Petersburg Notebook investigates both the psychic landscape and character of the post-soviet human and the travelling writer's own estrangement from self and time during the white nights. Her observations of Russians' muteness or lack of expressivity, the hollowness of their cultural spine, and their desire to be superficially European strangely echo the Marquis de Custine's 19th-century critical travelogue. The porous space of Petersburg, cast in oblique light, is palpable as an unsettling dream in this brief, haunted notebook."- Matvei Yankelevich, translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms
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Add this copy of Saint Petersburg Notebook to cart. $15.08, very good condition, Sold by Hay-on-Wye Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2014 by Omnidawn.
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Very Good. Unused, some outer pages have light marks from shelf wear, cover also has marks from shelf wear, book content is in like new condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 47 p. Contains: Halftones, black & white.
Add this copy of Saint Petersburg Notebook to cart. $53.96, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Omnidawn.
