The New Urban Gothic by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030437770
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Later on in his comments, Glukhovsky notes the relationship between his work and the current political situation in Russia: ‘I think that Metro 2033 was just an attempt to sum up my thoughts and feelings of our life in Russia in the nineties. Just like Metro 2035 is an attempt to understand where today’s Russia is going - and why does it choose to go back into Hell’ (2016, n.p.). Interestingly, he compares Russian history to a tragedy, ‘a non-ending catastrophe for the last several centuries’ and his interest in the idea of how ‘we humans never learn from the mistakes of our past’ (2016, n.p.). The stations possess an identity and cannot be coded as empty, as non-places. The enduring weight of Moscow’s history, and the inevitable repetition of it after the nuclear blast of 2013, as depicted in the novels and games, resonates through its tunnels.

Image 3A comparison of Artyom’s arrival in the fascist station Reich (left) and communist Teatr (right) in Metro: Last Light

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