An introduction to a complex but hugely influential Russian novel written on the eve of the First World War. Accessible essays explain how Petersburg articulated the sensibility, ideas, phobias, and aspirations of Russian and transnational modernism.

Books about Andrei Bely's Petersburg and the Cult of Dionysus

No figure in turn-of-the-century Russia, John Malmstad asserts, better epitomizes the paradoxes of that era than Andrey Bely (1880–1934). Eulogized by Boris Pasternak as "the most remarkable writer of our age" and now widely regarded as the seminal figure in Russian modernism and as one of the major writers of

An unabridged translation of Bely's masterful, comic fiction of reactionary officials, nihilistic revolutionaries, a would-be parricide, a bomb concealed in a sardine can, and the city which as setting and character focuses the Russian search for national identity

Books about Andrei Bely