Space
Internal
Space Analysis
In this point it will be
established
where the story happens. Which are the places named in the text, where
are they
and which paths Attilia cover in her travels.
In Builders, we have a rough description of the place, as we
are told
of the wasteland were the Austro-Turkish war took place. Many names of
buildings of the area are given, but what proves really useful for us to
place
the events will be, in this particular place, the
rivers.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Savarivermap.png
This is a map of the Sava
River watershed. Karl
Musser, created it based on USGS
data.
Some rivers are named as the
builders’ favourite places to build, the banks of the Danube and the Drina,
both in the area of the Balkans. In the other chapters, a different river is
named as the place where the church and palace are going to be built,
and where
Attilia and Nikolich live, the river Tisa, in dark blue in the image
below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Thiz_river.jpg
The main story is placed around
these places, in a city named Ada. However, when Attilia finds the church of
the Holy Mother of God, it is placed in Temishvar, thirty miles east
from Ada,
in western Romania.
http://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v93/n3/fig_tab/6800504f1.html
- figure-title
The last chapter is the most
interesting travel, as it goes from Ada to Austria, crossing Budapest
and Viena
to get to Kremsmünster monastery. The following map shows this travel. The
lowest green point is Ada, north from Belgrade. Next stop is Budapest, a
hundred and fifty miles northwest from Ada. Some 130 miles to the west they
reach Vienna, and following the river Krems they finally get to
Kremsmünster.
The position of the points reproduces the way the stars appeared in the
palace
ceiling.
Kremsmünster is a Benedictine
monastery upon the river Krems, west from Vienna.:
http://www.stift-kremsmuenster.at/ The Abbey Website
(only in
German).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremsmunster
Kremsmünster city in the Wikipedia.
http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienG/Gerhard_von_Kremsmuenster.html
http://www.archiv-verlag.at/inhalte/loseblatt/oberoesterreich_edition/ooe_edition.html
Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Gil Fernández, Manuel
magilfer@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press