Petersburg/Petersburg: Novel and City, 1900–1921

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Contents List of Illustrations vii Preface ix Introduction 3   Part One: Petersburg, the Novel 1 Backs, Suddenlys, and Surveillance 31   2 Poetics of Disgust: To Eat and Die in Petersburg 55   3 Bely, Kandinsky, and Avant-Garde Aesthetics 83   Part Two: Petersburg, the City 4 “The Streetcar Prattle of Life”: Reading and Riding St. Petersburg’s Trams 123   5 How Terrorists Learned to Map: Plotting in Petersburg and Boris Savinkov’s Recollections of a Terrorist and The Pale Horse 149   and   6 The Enchanted Masquerade: Alexander Blok’s The Puppet Show from the Stage to the Streets 174   v 7 Panoramas from Above and Street from Below: The Petersburg of Vyacheslav Ivanov and Mikhail Kuzmin 194   8 The Button and the Barricade: Bridges in Paris and Petersburg 217   9 28 Nevsky Prospect: The Sewing Machine, the Seamstress, and Narrative 238   10 Meat in Russia’s Modernist Imagination 262   11 The Fluid Margins: Flâneurs of the Karpovka River 283   12 The Voices of Silence: The Death and Funeral of Alexander Blok 305  - Concluding Remarks 327   Postscript. St. Petersburg: New Architecture and Old Mythology 332   Contributors 343 Index 345 vi Contents ...