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This book presents Andrei Bely's four Symphonies-"Dramatic Symphony, " "Northern Symphony, " "The Return, " and "Goblet of Blizzards"-fantastically strange stories and quintessential works of modernist innovation.

This book presents Andrei Bely's four Symphonies-"Dramatic Symphony, " "Northern Symphony, " "The Return, " and "Goblet of Blizzards"-fantastically strange stories and quintessential works of modernist innovation.

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Andrei Bely's Petersburg is considered one of the four greatest prose masterpieces of the 20th century. This new edition of the best-selling translation provides historical and literary context to the political, philosophical, and darkly comedic novel.

This newly rediscovered gem of a novel by one of Russia's finest writers explores some of the thorniest issues of the early twentieth century. And reviewers have hailed the translation as "a coup" and "a remarkable achievement." An absent-minded professor and a glamorous yet bumbling spy struggle over a powerful secret formula in this tale filled with eccentric personalities, wild dialogue, improbable sounds, bristling images and vivid col...

WINNER OF THE 2012 ROSSICA PRIZE Bely's masterpiece novel is a tour de force of modernist style, which tells a gripping story of political terrorism, conspiracy, family dysfunction and murder. John Elsworth's

Andrei Bely was the greatest Russian writer of the twentieth century. Chiefly known outside of Russia as a novelist (his Petersburg is the best modern Russian novel), he was also a leading symbolist poet and profound philosophical critic. Bely was also a mystic who had an unsurpassed ability to express his visions in writing, and he often did so in the form of lyrical essays, a selection of which is offered here. Many of these essays were writ...

Steeped in the social and religious culture of prerevolutionary Russia, Andrey Bely's first novel is inspired by theosophy, the myth of Dionysus, and the author's own thoughts on the relationship between artistic and religious creation. The story of an idle intellectual who pursues transcendence, The Silver Dove is also Bely's study of the unbridgeable chasm between his country's Westernized intelligentsia and the mysterious, apocalyptic passi...