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- A Reader's Guide to Andrei Bely's "Petersburg"
- Book
- 2019
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
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.
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.
Table of Contents
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- A Note on Translation and Transliteration
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction
- pp. 3-23
- On Translating Petersburg
- pp. 24-36
- Part One. The Intellectual Context
- Petersburg and Modern Occultism
- pp. 54-69
- Neo-Kantianism in Petersburg
- pp. 85-99
- Petersburg and the New Science of Psychology
- pp. 110-123
- Petersburg and Contemporary Racial Thought
- pp. 124-137
- Petersburg as Apocalyptic Fiction
- pp. 138-154
- Part Two. The Aesthetic Context
- Petersburg and Modernist Painting with Words
- pp. 186-201
- Part Three. Aids for Reading and Studying Petersburg
- Recommended Critical Literature in English
- pp. 257-258
- Contributors
- pp. 259-262
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299319335
Related ISBN(s)
9780299319304, 9780299319342
MARC Record
OCLC
1062360963
Pages
280
Launched on MUSE
2018-12-03
Language
English
Open Access
No