Galápagos giant tortoises being fed at the Aquarium in Berlin, 1913-1914
Sites of Berlin
Sites of Russian Berlin
Erhard Senf
Bildarchiv Kaiser-Panorama-Berlin <br />Deutsches Historisches Museum<br /><a href="http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/dhm.php?seite=10" target="_blank">http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/dhm.php?seite=10</a><br /><br />Inventarnr. 00/2001/115/156/013<br />GOS-Nr. KP007885
1913-1914
Jenya Mironava
Narrative "Score"
Vladimir Nabokov's "A Guide to Berlin"
An interactive graph, or "score," of Nabokov's short story "A Guide to Berlin." The interactive "score" of Nabokov's "A guide to Berlin" shows the progression of the narrative verb by verb in each chapter (left to right, horizontal axis) and the fluctuations of time across past-present-future (bottom to top, vertical axis), representing the work of memory and imagination, and the interconnectedness of time in this text.
This map also captures the narrator's movement in space. The locations—home, streetcar, zoo, and pub—are color coded, showing that the narrative generally parallels the linearity of physical movement (left to right), but that it also undermines it a little, as the first groups of dots indicates.
Matt Lawson, design
1925
Jenya Mironava
Narrative Guide
A diagrammatic map of Vladimir Nabokov "A Guide to Berlin" (1925)
This schematic representation of the narrative movement of Nabokov's "A Guide to Berlin" shows the temporal complexity of the narrative. Each block (color-coded by the location) represents a small textual segment, in which the time of action was deemed to be consistent throughout. The diagram makes visible the instances of time-mirrorring, of parallel temporal lines meeting, of synchronicity of time, and shows the narrator's physical movement (in space and in narrative) as well (left to right).
Matt Lawson, design
1925
Jenya Mironava
"A Guide to Berlin" (1925) by Vladimir Nabokov
"A Guide to Berlin" is a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925 in Berlin. The first English translation was published in <em>The New Yorker </em>on March 1, 1976.
Vladimir Nabokov
Nabokov, Vladimir. "A Guide to Berlin." <em>The New Yorker</em>, Mar 1, 1976. 27-28.
<em>The New Yorker</em>
1925
Jenya Mironava
English
Vladimir Nabokov, 6th year of exile
Vladimir Nabokov, an émigré in Berlin
A photograph of the young Vladimir Nabokov taken at KaDeWe, Berlin's department store, during his 6th year of exile, as the writer's handwritten caption indicates.
1924
Jenya Mironava
Entrance to the Zoo, Berlin, 1900
Sites of Berlin
Sites of Russian Berlin
Vintage postcard: the Elephant Gate to the Berlin Zoo, 1900
The Elephant Gate—<a href="http://theelephantgate.weebly.com/berlin-zoo-and-surrounding-areas.html" target="_blank">http://theelephantgate.weebly.com/berlin-zoo-and-surrounding-areas.html</a>
1900
Jenya Mironava
Main entrance to the Berlin Aquarium, 1935
Sites of Berlin
Sites of Russian Berlin
The Elephant Gate—<a href="http://theelephantgate.weebly.com/berlin-zoo-and-surrounding-areas.html" target="_blank">http://theelephantgate.weebly.com/berlin-zoo-and-surrounding-areas.html</a>
1935
Jenya Mironava
Hotel "Eden," Berlin, 1919
Sites of Berlin
University of Warwick, University Library, Modern Records Centre<a href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/digital/sara/germany/" target="_blank"><br />http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/digital/sara/germany/</a>
1919
Jenya Mironava
Hotel "Eden," Berlin
Sites of Berlin
front view of Hotel "Eden" located at Budapester Straße 35 (previously, Kurfürstendamm 246/247)
<a href="http://www.potsdamer-platz.org/eden.htm" target="_blank">http://www.potsdamer-platz.org/eden.htm</a>
Jenya Mironava
Drawing of Hotel "Eden"
Sites of Berlin
<a href="http://www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com/karl_liebknecht_and_r.l.html" target="_blank">http://www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com/karl_liebknecht_and_r.l.html</a>
Jenya Mironava