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Andrey Bely’s “Petersburg”

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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 compa...
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  • 31 May 2017
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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. The plot is relatively a simple one: Nikolai Apollonovich is ordered by a group of terrorists to assassinate his father, the prominent senator, Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov. Nevertheless, Bely’s polyphonic, experimental prose invokes such diverse themes as: Greek mythology, the apocalypse, family dynamics, psychology, Russian history, theosophy, revolution, and European literary influences. 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. Frequently compared to Joyce’s Ulysses, no novel did more to help launch modernism in turn-of-the century Russia.
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Price: $119.00
Pages: 276
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Publication Date: 31 May 2017
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781618115751
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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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


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.
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