{"product_id":"andrey-belys-petersburg-a-centennial-celebration-9781618115751","title":"Andrey Bely's  Petersburg: A Centennial","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCelebrating the one-hundredth anniversary of Andrey Bely’s \u003ci\u003ePetersburg\u003c\/i\u003e, this volume offers a cross-section of essays that address the most pertinent aspects of his 1916 masterpiece. The plot is relatively a simple one: Nikolai Apollonovich is ordered by a group of terrorists to assassinate his father, the prominent senator, Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov. Nevertheless, Bely’s polyphonic, experimental prose invokes such diverse themes as: Greek mythology, the apocalypse, family dynamics, psychology, Russian history, theosophy, revolution, and European literary influences. Considered by Vladimir Nabokov to be one of the twentieth century’s four greatest masterpieces, \u003ci\u003ePetersburg\u003c\/i\u003e is the first novel in which the city is the hero.  Frequently compared to Joyce’s \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, no novel did more to help launch modernism in turn-of-the century Russia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003ePetersburg \u003c\/i\u003eto 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, \u003ci\u003eSlavonic and East European Review\u003c\/i\u003e Vol. 96, No. 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e * Slavonic and East European Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Thomas R. Beyer Jr.\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Vladimir Nabokov, “On \u003ci\u003ePetersburg\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Introduction by Olga M. Cooke\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Carol Anschuetz, “Bely’s \u003ci\u003ePetersburg\u003c\/i\u003e and the End of the Russian Novel”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Maria Carlson, “Andrei Bely’s Astral Novel: A Theosophical Reading of \u003ci\u003ePetersburg\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Charlene Castellano, “Synesthesia as Apocalypse in Andrey Bely’s \u003ci\u003ePetersburg\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jacob Emery, “Kinship and Figure in Andrey Bely’s \u003ci\u003ePetersburg\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Roger Keys, “Metafiction in Andrey Bely’s Novel \u003ci\u003ePetersburg\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Timothy Langen, “\u003ci\u003ePetersburg\u003c\/i\u003e as a Historical Novel”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Aleksandr V. Lavrov, “Andrey Bely between Conrad and Chesterton”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Magnus Ljunggren, “The Bomb, the Baby, the Book”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Anna Ponomareva, “‘Know Thyself’: From the Temple of Apollo at Delphi to the Pages of \u003ci\u003ePetersburg\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ada Steinberg, “Fragmentary ‘Prototypes’ in Andrey Bely’s Novel \u003ci\u003ePetersburg\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Adam Weiner, “The Enchanted Point of \u003ci\u003ePetersburg\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Judith Wermuth-Atkinson, “Reality and Appearance in \u003ci\u003ePetersburg\u003c\/i\u003e and the Viennese Secession” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359753175383,"sku":"9781618115751","price":72.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781618115751.jpg?v=1754125605","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/andrey-belys-petersburg-a-centennial-celebration-9781618115751","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}