Diabelskie koło historii. Poetyki miejskie w powieści Aleksieja Iwanowa Cienie Teutonów

Aleksei Ivanov's novel Shadows of the Teutons (2021) offers a unique lens to examine urban poetics and historical memory through the transformation of Baltic cities, notably Marienburg (Malbork) and Baltiysk (Pillau), across two pivotal periods: the 1457 Polish-Teutonic conflict and the 1945 battles in East Prussia. The study reveals how these landscapes, marked by somatopoetics and thanatopoetics, encapsulate sensory dimensions—auditory and olfactory—of wartime experiences, memoryscapes, and subterranean settings like bunkers and catacombs. By analyzing narrative structures and interconnections, the research uncovers the complex identity of these sites, bridging historical conflicts and their enduring cultural imprints.

Pavlenko, S. (2024). The ferris wheel of history. Urban poetics in Aleksei Ivanov’s novel Shadows of the Teutons. Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 49(1), 89–103. https://doi.org/10.14746/strp.2024.49.1.6