A Reader's Guide to Andrei Bely's Petersburg Contributor(s): Livak, Leonid (Editor) |
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ISBN: 029931930X ISBN-13: 9780299319304 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
Dewey: 891.733 |
LCCN: 2018011399 |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.20 lbs) 248 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Features: Annotated, Bibliography, Index, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Choice 06/01/2019 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Andrei Bely's 1913 masterwork Petersburg is widely regarded as the most important Russian novel of the twentieth century. Vladimir Nabokov ranked it with James Joyce's Ulysses, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Few artistic works created before the First World War encapsulate and articulate the sensibility, ideas, phobias, and aspirations of Russian and transnational modernism as comprehensively. Bely expected his audience to participate in unraveling the work's many meanings, narrative strains, and patterns of details. In their essays, the contributors clarify these complexities, summarize the intellectual and artistic contexts that informed Petersburg's creation and reception, and review the interpretive possibilities contained in the novel. This volume will aid a broad audience of Anglophone readers in understanding and appreciating Petersburg. |
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