Petersburg
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Petersburg
9.99 €
Andrei Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev) (1880-1934) was one of the key figures of the Silver Age, a symbolist writer, mystic and experimentalist.
St. Petersburg in the novel of the same name is tormenting and mesmerizing, a city-sleep, a city-hallucination, it is also the main character of the work. Against the backdrop of majestic architecture, human destinies collide. The revolutionary Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov is assigned a terrible task - to kill his father-senator.
According to the author's plan, this is the final chord of the myth of St. Petersburg, created over the course of a century by the geniuses of Russian culture: Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky. The City on the Neva is described by White as a symbol of the precarious state in which Russia found itself at the beginning of the XX century.
The novel was originally called "The Lacquered Carriage", the name "Petersburg" was suggested to the author by Vyacheslav Ivanov.
The text is written in rhythmic prose, in which poetic tropes are guessed.
Nabokov called the novel the third masterpiece of 20th-century world literature, after Joyce's Ulysses and Kafka's The Transfiguration.
This edition publishes the complete unedited version of the novel.
St. Petersburg in the novel of the same name is tormenting and mesmerizing, a city-sleep, a city-hallucination, it is also the main character of the work. Against the backdrop of majestic architecture, human destinies collide. The revolutionary Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov is assigned a terrible task - to kill his father-senator.
According to the author's plan, this is the final chord of the myth of St. Petersburg, created over the course of a century by the geniuses of Russian culture: Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky. The City on the Neva is described by White as a symbol of the precarious state in which Russia found itself at the beginning of the XX century.
The novel was originally called "The Lacquered Carriage", the name "Petersburg" was suggested to the author by Vyacheslav Ivanov.
The text is written in rhythmic prose, in which poetic tropes are guessed.
Nabokov called the novel the third masterpiece of 20th-century world literature, after Joyce's Ulysses and Kafka's The Transfiguration.
This edition publishes the complete unedited version of the novel.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Backbone. Main trend