Lotman's World

The world is in every person. Microcosms have no boundaries. They are exactly as big as the imagination of their owner. Juri Lotman's imagination was clearly very big. The entire universe fit into it - a large portion of Russian literature, the semiosphere, the size of the galaxy, and detailed knowledge of wartime lines of communication. As a cosmopolitan, he travelled about various orbits, gathering and recording different kinds of information. The time came when the ideas that resulted from the of processing information started to look for a means of expression. Some of them found their way out through picture drawings, others by way of written words. In Lotman's world, Hitler and Stalin meet, and images of St. Petersburg and Tartu intertwine. The roundtable of semioticians such as Eco, Uspenski, Toporov, Jegorov, Ivanov, Pjatigorski have the floor. There are as many worlds as there are people. But there is only one Lotman's World.