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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. Frequently compared to Joyce's Ulysses, no novel did more to help launch modernism in turn-of-the century Russia.
List of contents
Foreword by Thomas R. Beyer Jr. Acknowledgments Vladimir Nabokov, ¿On
Petersburg¿ Introduction by Olga M. Cooke Carol Anschuetz, ¿Bely¿s
Petersburg and the End of the Russian Novel¿ Maria Carlson, ¿Andrei Bely¿s Astral Novel: A Theosophical Reading of
Petersburg¿ Charlene Castellano, ¿Synesthesia as Apocalypse in Andrey Bely¿s
Petersburg¿ Jacob Emery, ¿Kinship and Figure in Andrey Bely¿s
Petersburg¿ Roger Keys, ¿Metafiction in Andrey Bely¿s Novel
Petersburg¿ Timothy Langen, ¿
Petersburg as a Historical Novel¿ Aleksandr V. Lavrov, ¿Andrey Bely between Conrad and Chesterton¿ Magnus Ljunggren, ¿The Bomb, the Baby, the Book¿ Anna Ponomareva, ¿`Know Thyself¿: From the Temple of Apollo at Delphi to the Pages of
Petersburg¿ Ada Steinberg, ¿Fragmentary `Prototypes¿ in Andrey Bely¿s Novel
Petersburg¿ Adam Weiner, ¿The Enchanted Point of
Petersburg¿ Judith Wermuth-Atkinson, ¿Reality and Appearance in
Petersburg and the Viennese Secession¿ Contributors
About the author
Olga M. Cooke is Associate Professor of Russian at Texas A&M University. She edits
Gulag Studies. Her recent publications focus on the works of Andrey Bely and on Gulag literature. She is completing a book called
¿The Most Interesting Man in Russia:¿ Andrey Bely¿s Life in Letters.
Summary
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. 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.
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“This collection of studies by American, British,
Scandinavian, Russian and Israeli scholars is a welcome contribution to our
knowledge of Belyi’s extraordinary novel. … What this collection does, and does
brilliantly, is not so much to promote Petersburg to a wider readership as to
provide a fascinating companion-guide, a complex and erudite Baedecker to the
living world of Belyi’s invention, a guide which helps us situate it in its
early twentieth-century Russian and European context.” —Avril Pyman, University
of Durham, Slavonic and East European Review
Vol. 96, No. 4
