META-MODERN URBAN EXPERIENCE IN THE ANTHOLOGY OF TOPOPHILIC PROSE V PITERE ZHIT’

This article applies meta-modernism as a new discursive practice for interpreting contemporaneity to the anthology V Pitere zhit’: ot Dvortsovoi do Sadovoi, ot Gangutskoi do Shpalernoi. Lichnye istorii (To Live in Petersburg: From Dvortsovaia to Sadovaia, from Gangutskaia to Shpalernaia. Personal stories, 2017) edited by Natalia Sokolovskaia and Elena Shubina. It demonstrates that despite the plurality of authorial styles in the collection. It advocates a homogeneous meta-modern mode of urban experience within which postmodern anti-anthropocentrism is substituted by the affirmation of the feeling (affective) subject, and the postmodern ahistorical presentism is replaced by the pursuit of self-situating into the historical time, allowing for a valorisation of Being through a subjectivity-affirming dialogue with the historical and contemporary Other.