L'vìv : dzerkalo : vzaêmnij obraz meškancìv L'vova u narracìâh XX-XXI stolìt'

This volume of essays is dedicated to the images, myths, locus and memory of Lwów/Lviv in literary fiction, history, and other narratives of the twentieth and twenty-first century. Preliminary versions of the texts that comprise the collection were presented and discussed at an academic conference, jointly held in Lviv in March 2010 by the Center for Urban History and Warsaw’s Institute for Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. The collection includes selected essays by Ukrainian and Polish participants of the conference. The collectionanalyzes the image of Lviv in literary texts written in various languages, in cultural texts, and collective memory. Particular attention is dedicated to mutual views and appraisals by various communities, as well as internal and external visions of imagined and declared "rights" to the city. This is the first multifaceted interdisciplinary attempt by an international cohort of researchers (the authors include historians, literary scholars, and cultural anthropologists) to "measure" the distance between declared and real multiculturalism in artistic visions, historical narration, and everyday life.