A Reader's Guide to Andrei Bely’s "Petersburg / edited by Leonid Livak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Livak, Leonid, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bely, Andrey, 1880-1934--Criticism and interpretation.

Bely, Andrey.

Bely, Andrey, 1880-1934. Peterburg.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018]

Summary:

Andrei Bely's 1913 masterwork Petersburg is widely regarded as the most important Russian novel of the twentieth century. Vladimir Nabokov ranked it with James Joyce's Ulysses, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Few artistic works created before the First World War encapsulate and articulate the sensibility, ideas, phobias, and aspirations of Russian and transnational modernism as comprehensively.Bely expected his audience to participate in unraveling the work's many meanings, narrative strains, and patterns of details. In their essays, the contributors clarify these complexities, summarize the intellectual and artistic contexts that informed Petersburg 's creation and reception, and review the interpretive possibilities contained in the novel. This volume will aid a broad audience of Anglophone readers in understanding and appreciating Petersburg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299319335

0299319334

OCLC:

1062360963