In the Russian culture confusion of the senses was very often connected with Petersburg — the city of contradictions and anomalies that cause visual and auditory hallucinations. Intertextual analysis presented in this articleallowed to present the motif of raging senses manifested in three extremely different works, which are connected, however, by certain common characters: Petersburg and Herman from The Queen of Spades.
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