Andrey Bely

Author : John E. Malmstad
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501745270

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Andrey Bely by John E. Malmstad Pdf

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 this century, Bely subjected the received standards of truth and value in literature to a penetrating and radical critique. After a long period of suppression under the Stalinist regime, Bely has become the object of growing critical attention in both East and West. Originating in a symposium held in 1984 under the auspices of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University on the fiftieth anniversary of Bely's death, this volume includes ten essays by established scholars of modern Russian literature, including leading Western specialists on Bely. The essays survey Bely's major works in all genres, summarize present research on Bely, reassess critical approaches, and offer fresh interpretations. Analytic summaries of primary works make the essays fully accessible to non-Slavist readers.

Author : Gerald Janecek
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813187839

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Andrey Bely by Gerald Janecek Pdf

Andrey Bely, novelist, essayist, theoretician, critic, and poet, was a central figure in the Russian Symbolist movement of the 1920s, the most important literary movement in Russia in this century. Bely articulated a Symbolist aesthetic and originated a new approach to the study of Russian metrics and versification, giving rise to a new scholarly discipline that still thrives in the West. Although regarded by some critics, including Vladimir Nabokov, as the author of the greatest Russian novel of this century, Bely has been nearly forgotten in his native country for ideological reasons. In the West he remains little known and generally under-valued. But with recent English translations of Kotik Letaev and his masterpiece, Petersburg, interest in Bely is increasing. Janecek's book brings together some of the best modern scholarship on Bely and the Russian Symbolist movement of the 1920s.

Author : Andrey Bely
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : Ardis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015000557150

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Complete Short Stories by Andrey Bely Pdf

Author : Leonid Livak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299319304

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A Reader's Guide to Andrei Bely's "petersburg by Leonid Livak Pdf

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.

Author : Gerald Janecek
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400852857

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The Look of Russian Literature by Gerald Janecek Pdf

Gerald Janecek describes the experiments in visual, literature conducted from 1900 to 1930, the heyday of the Russian Avant Garde. Focusing on an aspect of Russian literary history that has previously been almost ignored, he shows how Russian writers of this period tried unusual methods to make their texts visually interesting or expressive. The book includes 183 illustrations, most from rare publications and many reproduced for the first time. The author discusses such figures as the Symbolist Andrey Bely, the Futurists Aleksey Kruchonykh, Vasili Kamensky, and Vladimir Mayakovsky, and the post-Futurist Ilya Zdanevich, and their use of devices ranging from unorthodox layouts and florid typography to roughly done lithographed or handmade books. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Andrei Bely
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780253035530

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Petersburg by Andrei Bely Pdf

Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg is considered one of the four greatest prose masterpieces of the 20th century. In this new edition of the best-selling translation, the reader will have access to the translators' detailed commentary, which provides the necessary historical and literary context for understanding the novel, as well as a foreword by Olga Matich, acclaimed scholar of Russian literature. Set in 1905 in St. Petersburg, a city in the throes of sociopolitical conflict, the novel follows university student Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov, who has gotten entangled with a revolutionary terrorist organization with plans to assassinate a government official–Nikolai's own father, Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov. With a sprawling cast of characters, set against a nightmarish city, it is all at once a historical, political, philosophical, and darkly comedic novel.

Author : Andrey Bely
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081011626X

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Kotik Letaev by Andrey Bely Pdf

A Russian novel which looks at childhood, seen through the eyes of a boy from the age of three to five years, in the 1800s.

Author : John David Elsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Authors, Russian
ISBN : UCAL:B4395864

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Andrey Bely by John David Elsworth Pdf

Author : Andrei Bely
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810125902

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Gogol's Artistry by Andrei Bely Pdf

When one great author engages another, as Andrei Bely so brilliantly does in Gogol’s Artistry, the result is inevitably a telling portrait of both writers. So it is in Gogol’s Artistry. Translated into English for the first time, this idiosyncratic, exhaustive critical study is as interesting for what it tells us about Bely’s thought and method as it is for its insights into the oeuvre of his literary predecessor. Bely’s argument in this book is that Gogol’s earlier writing should be given more consideration than most critics have granted. Employing what might be called a scientific perspective, Bely considers how often certain colors appear; he diagrams sentences and discusses Gogol’s prose in terms of mathematical equations. The result, as strange and engaging as Bely’s best fiction, is also an innovative, thorough, and remarkably revealing work of criticism.

Author : Andrei Bely
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780231552936

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The Symphonies by Andrei Bely Pdf

Andrei Bely is best known for the modernist masterwork Petersburg, a paradigmatic example of how modern writers strove to evoke the fragmentation of language, narrative, and consciousness. In the early twentieth century, Bely embarked on his life as an artist with texts he called “symphonies”—works experimenting with genre and sound, written in a style that shifts among prosaic, poetic, and musical. This book presents Bely’s four Symphonies—“Dramatic Symphony,” “Northern Symphony,” “The Return,” and “Goblet of Blizzards”—fantastically strange stories that capture the banality of life, the intimacy of love, and the enchantment of art. The Symphonies are quintessential works of modernist innovation in which Bely developed an evocative mythology and distinctive aesthetics. Influenced by Russian Symbolism, Bely believed that the role of modern artists was to imbue seemingly small details with cosmic significance. The Symphonies depict the drabness of daily life with distinct irony and satire—and then soar out of turn-of-the-century Moscow into the realm of the infinite and eternal. They conjure worlds that resemble our own but reveal elements of artifice and magic, hinting at mystical truths and the complete transfiguration of life. Showcasing the protean quality of Bely’s language and storytelling, Jonathan Stone’s translation of the Symphonies features some of the most captivating and beguiling writing of Russia’s Silver Age.

Author : Rosamund Bartlett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521440718

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Wagner and Russia by Rosamund Bartlett Pdf

This book explores the influence of the composer Richard Wagner on Russian writers, musicians and artists.

Author : J. D. Elsworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1983-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521247245

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Audrey Bely by J. D. Elsworth Pdf

This book traces the development of Audrey Bely's technique as a novelist from the early experimental Symphonies, to the last novel, Masks.

Author : Olga Matich
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299236038

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Petersburg/Petersburg by Olga Matich Pdf

Since its founding three hundred years ago, the city of Saint Petersburg has captured the imaginations of the most celebrated Russian writers, whose characters map the city by navigating its streets from the aristocratic center to the gritty outskirts. While Tsar Peter the Great planned the streetscapes of Russia’s northern capital as a contrast to the muddy and crooked streets of Moscow, Andrei Bely’s novel Petersburg (1916), a cornerstone of Russian modernism and the culmination of the “Petersburg myth” in Russian culture, takes issue with the city’s premeditated and supposedly rational character in the early twentieth century. “Petersburg”/Petersburg studies the book and the city against and through each other. It begins with new readings of the novel—as a detective story inspired by bomb-throwing terrorists, as a representation of the aversive emotion of disgust, and as a painterly avant-garde text—stressing the novel’s phantasmagoric and apocalyptic vision of the city. Taking a cue from Petersburg’s narrator, the rest of this volume (and the companion Web site, stpetersburg.berkeley.edu/) explores the city from vantage points that have not been considered before—from its streetcars and iconic art-nouveau office buildings to the slaughterhouse on the city fringes. From poetry and terrorist memoirs, photographs and artwork, maps and guidebooks of that period, the city emerges as a living organism, a dreamworld in flux, and a junction of modernity and modernism.

Author : Andrey Bely
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 0810117576

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The Silver Dove by Andrey Bely Pdf

The Silver Dove, published four years before Bely's masterpiece Petersburg, is considered the first modern Russian novel. Breaking with Russian realism, and a pioneering Symbolist work, its vividly drawn characters, elemental landscapes, and rich style make it accessible to the Western reader, and this new translation makes the complete work available in English for the first time. Dissatisfied with the life of the intelligentsia, the poet Daryalsky joins a rural mystic sect, the Silver Doves. The locals, in particular the peasant woman Matryona, are fascinated by the dashing stranger. Daryalsky is in turn taken in by the Doves' intimacy with the mystical and spiritual--and by Matryona. Under the influence of Kudeyarov, the ruthless cult leader, Daryalsky is used in a bid to produce a sacred child. But in time the poet disappoints the Doves and must face their suspicions and jealousies--and his own inevitable dire fate.

Author : Константин Мочульский
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Authors, Russian
ISBN : UCSC:32106001599775

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Andrei Bely by Константин Мочульский Pdf