#  Davis Center: The Quadratura of Myth; or Thirty White Piglets on the Road of Fate: Alexandra Petrova on Migrations, Rome and Her Novel "Appendix" 

 



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 **February 8, 2018** 

 04:15PM - 06:00PM EST 

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 **CGIS South, S354, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

 Alexandra Petrova was born in St. Petersburg when it still was called Leningrad. She studied Russian language and literature at the University of Tartu, where she wrote a thesis on the prose of Leonid Dobychin. In 1993 she emigrated to Jerusalem, and since 1998 she has lived in Rome.

 She is the author of three volumes of poetry: *Point of Detachment \[Liniia otryva\]* (1994), *Permit to Live \[Vid na zhitel’stvo\]* (1999) and *Only the Trees \[Tolko derev’ia\]* (2008). She has also written *Dolly’s Shepherds \[Pastukhi Dolly\]*, a philosophical operetta in ten acts (2001). Her novel *Appendix*appeared in 2016 and has been the subject of widespread critical discussion and much praise. It won the Andrei Belyi Prize in 2016.

 *Note that this seminar will be given in Russian.*

 Speaker(s):

 **Alexandra Petrova**, Poet and Novelist

 Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

 For more information, please call 617-495-4037.



 

 



 

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