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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.
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