Wędrówki po mieście podziemnym – powieściowe uniwersum. Metro i antropologia metra jako inspiracje flânerie
Wandering across the Subterranean Town – the Universe of In the Metro and the Anthropology of the Metro as Inspirations of Flânerie

Summary/Abstract: A presentation of an extraordinary image of a town that emerged in the course of flâneur explorations of subterranean metro tunnels. The point of departure for these reflections is the anthropology of the metro proposed by the French scholar Marc Augé, whose work is situated along the borderline of anthropology and literature and portrays the metro as a fascinating field of research for the anthropologist and, at the same time, as a “memory machine” blending collective History and the individual histories of daily travellers (including the researcher). In turn, literary inspirations, exemplified by a series of books inaugurated by Metro 2033, a novel by Dmitry Glukhovsky, provoke readers-flâneurs to embark upon sometimes hazardous journeys into the underground recesses of a city in a search for mysteries created by a tangle of historical facts, rumours, urban legends, and the imagination of the town dwellers.

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