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The Reluctant Modernist - Andrei Belyi and the Development of Russian Fiction, 1902-1914 (Hardcover)
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The Reluctant Modernist - Andrei Belyi and the Development of Russian Fiction, 1902-1914 (Hardcover)
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Andrei Belyi (1880-1934) is generally regarded as the greatest and
most influential prose-writer to emerge from the Symbolist movement
in Russia at the turn of the twentieth century. His early prose
`symphonies' and novels are often compared with the work of such
European `modernists' as Joyce and Proust. This is the first book
to attempt a systematic analysis of the place of Belyi's fiction
within the modernist prose tradition in Russia; a tradition which
has been obscured by decades of ideological distortion.
Paradoxically, Belyi himself, a mystic by nature who sought only
transcendent certainty from the flux of experience, would have been
reluctant to claim this tradition as his own. Keys demonstrates the
inadequacy of the various `isms' (Symbolism, Impressionism, etc.)
which have until recently bedevilled most critical attempts to sort
out the prose of the period, giving a comprehensive overview of
Belyi criticism from both within and outside the Soviet Union. The
book includes a detailed analysis of Belyi's prose works, paying
keen attention to his philosophical and literary influences,
including extensive reading of Kant and Gogol and its particular
effect upon his theory and practice, and locating him firmly in his
own Russian context. Sections devoted to Belyi's greatest novel,
Petersburg, and other works, such as The Silver Dove and Dramatic
Symphony, analyse Belyi's use of structure and plot, leitmotifs and
acoustic symbolism. The book marks Belyi's attempts to reconcile
the Symbolist vision of the writer as having revelatory mystical
authority with the concept of `perspectivism', implied author,
narrator and character offering a number of different voices which
cannot claim cognitive authority beyond the fictional context in
which they occur.
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