Andrey Bely's "Petersburg - A Centennial Celebration (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Academic Studies Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Real Twentieth Century
Release date:	June 2017
Editors:	Olga M. Cooke
Foreword by:	Thomas R. Beyer Jr.
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	340
ISBN-13:	978-1-61811-575-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	1-61811-575-8
Barcode:	9781618115751

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