Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg is considered one of the four greatest prose masterpieces of the 20th century. In this new edition of the best-selling translation, the reader will have access to the translators' detailed commentary, which provides the necessary historical and literary context for understanding the novel, as well as a foreword by Olga Matich, acclaimed scholar of Russian literature. Petersburg as mapped and fantasmic space is both the hero and setting of Andrey Bely's novel (), in which many real city locales are named. The chatty and generally inarticulate narrator of the Prologue tells the reader that Nevsky Prospect is "rectilineal" and "for the circulation of the public," and "if Petersburg is not the capital, then there is no Petersburg. · Few artistic works created before World War I convey the sensibility, ideas, phobias, and aspirations of Russian and transnational modernism as comprehensively as Andrei Bely’s Petersburg (), whose place and importance in cultural history have been often compared to those of James Joyce’s Ulysses ().Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.
Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg is considered one of the four greatest prose masterpieces of the 20th century. In this new edition of the best-selling translation, the reader will have access to the translators' detailed commentary, which provides the necessary historical and literary context for understanding the novel, as well as a foreword by Olga Matich, acclaimed scholar of Russian. But the real central character of the novel is the city of Petersburg at the beginning of the twentieth century, caught in the grip of political agitation and social unrest. More Books by Andrei Bely John Elsworth. Petersburg. Petersburg. The Symphonies. The Moscow Eccentric. Glossolalia. Andrei Bely's masterpiece, Petersburg is a vivid, striking story set at the heart of the Russian revolution. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Russian by David McDuff with an introduction by Adam Thirlwell. St Petersburg, An impressionable young university student.
Considered Andrei Bely's masterpiece, Petersburg, is a pioneering modernist novel, ranked in importance alongside Ulysses, The Metamorphosis, and In Search of Lost Time, that captures Russia's capital during the short, turbulent period of the first socialist revolution in Exploring themes of history, identity, and family, it sees the young Russian Nikolai Ableukhov chased through the misty Petersburg streets, tasked with planting a bomb intended to kill a government official-his own. Petersburg (Russian: Петербург, Peterbúrg) is a novel by Russian writer Andrei Bely. A Symbolist [ citation needed ] work, it arguably foreshadows James Joyce 's [1] Modernist ambitions. [ citation needed ] First published in , the novel received little attention and was not translated into English until by John Cournos, over 45 years after it was written. The Bronze Horseman that Andrei Bely is referring to in this novel is of course the statue of Peter the Great which is the most recognizable structure that people will identify with St. Petersburg. I had a postcard of the Bronze Horseman that someone gave me when I was a kid.
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