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Petersburg

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Petersburg
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"Petersburg" occupies in Russian-language prose approximately the same place as Joyce's "Ulysses" in English-language prose and Kafka's "The Process" in German-language prose.
The demonstratively classicist form conceals a striking riot of content: Gogol's motifs are mixed with references to Dostoevsky, and irony and social satire are juxtaposed with mysticism. A day and a half in the life of St. Petersburg dignitary Apollo Apollonovich Ableukhov and his son Nikolai becomes a strange, funny and mesmerizing phantasmagoria, where everything that St. Petersburg lived in the early 20th century is mixed into a strong cocktail - esotericism and occultism of various kinds, rallies and political terrorism, balls, masquerades and even the fashion for Satanism and suicide....
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