Andriy Zayarnyuk1; 1 University of Winnipeg, Canada
Discussion
This paper explores urban imaginary in the textual representations of Lviv created by the city intellectuals. It analyzes visions of the city, as well as definitions and connotations of urban experience present in those visions. Chronologically, the paper looks at the period from the 20th Party Congress (which also happened to be the year of Lviv’s 700th anniversary) and the beginning of Brezhnev’s “reaction.” While historians studying the period have focused on the national marking of the city and promulgation of the city’s Ukrainian identity, this paper looks at the very meaning of urbanity, urban life, and urban experience as represented in the works of Lviv’s writers, artists, and journalists.
