| Andrey Bely's "Petersburg": A Centennial Celebration Contributor(s): Cooke, Olga M. (Editor), Beyer, Thomas R. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1618115758 ISBN-13: 9781618115751 Publisher: Academic Studies Press OUR PRICE: $113.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 891.733 |
| LCCN: 2016052721 |
| Series: Real Twentieth Century |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.24 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Celebrating the one-hundredth anniversary of Andrey Bely's Petersburg, this volume offers a cross-section of essays that address the most pertinent aspects of his 1916 masterpiece. The plot is relatively a simple one: Nikolai Apollonovich is ordered by a group of terrorists to assassinate his father, the prominent senator, Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov. Nevertheless, Bely's polyphonic, experimental prose invokes such diverse themes as: Greek mythology, the apocalypse, family dynamics, psychology, Russian history, theosophy, revolution, and European literary influences. Considered by Vladimir Nabokov to be one of the twentieth century's four greatest masterpieces, Petersburg is the first novel in which the city is the hero. Frequently compared to Joyce's Ulysses, no novel did more to help launch modernism in turn-of-the century Russia. |