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.
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.
"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
