Re: City of Lions

Abstract

In the course of the past two decades, the city of Lviv has enjoyed close attention as well as a “close reading” in literary and scholarly texts on the city. This attention fits easily into two categories: (a) scholars producing academic studies on the city and (b) classical literary works on the city, composed in various languages, finally becoming available to a broader readership through translation into English. The book under discussion falls into the second category.1 It must be pointed out right away that this is an unusual book—a truly successful combination of two essays—that should be rewarded with proper attention.

Keywords

• lviv
• city
• ukraine
• eastern europe