(Re)Imagining the Capital of the Nation: Artur Klinau's Little Guidebook to the Sun City

The article investigates Artur Klinau's Little Guidebook to the Sun City in the light of Belarus's political and cultural context. It considers the book as a stratification of three narrative layers: an autobiographical selective remembrance, a nationalist counternarrative that mythologizes places of memory of the pre-Soviet era and constructs the (illusory) idea of a Belarusian historical continuum rooted in central European traditions, and a visualization of Minsk as a hybrid and rhizomatic city. As I argue, the contradictions and tensions characterizing this multilayered structure reflect the aporia of the antagonistic and hegemonic battles over "Belarusianness" and collective and historical memory in post-Soviet Belarus.