The Stony Dance
Unity and Gesture in Andrey Bely's Petersburg
Publication Year: 2005
Published by: Northwestern University Press
Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
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Introduction
In January 1912, Andrey Bely submitted the first half of a novel for publication in the Moscow journal Russian Thought. The novel, his second, revolves around a terrorist plot to assassinate a reactionary senator—the assassin being the senator’s own son. It was provisionally titled either The Lacquered Carriage or Evil Shadows, and Bely promised to finish it by April or May of the same year. No need, said the journal’s editor, Pyotr...

Chapter Four
A GLEAMING, GOLDEN SPIRE against the leaden Petersburg sky. Nikolai Apollonovich, mask pulled absentmindedly off his face, gaping at a mysterious letter while his father looks on. Dudkin in a pose of crucifixion against the wall. An Asiatic face in the wallpaper. The enormous wart on the side of Morkovin’s...
E-ISBN-13: 9780810165878
Print-ISBN-13: 9780810122246
Page Count: 274
Publication Year: 2005
Edition: 1
Series Title: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Series Editor Byline: Gary Saul Morson
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