La città di Svea: appunti su una cartografia letteraria della città di Stoccolma

This article aims to analyse portrayals of the city of Stockholm in recent Swedish literary production. Drawing on a multidisciplinary reading which takes into consideration interpretations spanning from city planning to architecture and to political and social sciences within the framework of Stockholm’s history, the research aims to use a geo-critical methodology, within which space and literature are bonded by mutual influence. Materials used in this paper range from Per Haman’s Cigarett (1991) to Hassan Loo Sattarvandi’s Still (2008) and include the city’s strategic and urban planning, as well as its visions, over the years. The interpretation of such diverse evidence gives rise to the reaffirmation of a real and imagined nature of Stockholm, to the separation between centre and outskirts and to the productive intersection of Geography and Literature.