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Title
Petersburg - a novel in eight chapters with a prologue and an epilogue

Author
Andrei Bely

format
Paperback / softback

Publisher
Penguin Classics

Language
English

UK Publication Date
19950928

Description

Andrei Bely's Petersburg is a colourful evocation of Russia's capital during the short, turbulent period of the first socialist revolution in 1905. Considered Bely's masterpiece, the story follows Nikolai Ableukhov's journey as he is caught up in the revolutionary politics of those seminal days; exploring themes of history, identity, and family, the novel sees the young Russian chased through the misty Petersburg streets, tasked with planting a bomb intended to kill a government official - his own father. History, culture and politics are blended and juxtaposed; weather reports, current news, fashions and psychology jostle together with people from Petersburg in this literary triumph.

Andrei Beley (born Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev) was born 26 October 1880. Beley was educated at Moscow University where he studied science and philosophy, before turning his focus to literature. In 1904 he published his first collection of poems, Gold in Azure, which was followed in 1909 by his first novel, The Silver Dove. Beley's most famous novel, Petersburg, was pubilshed in 1916. His work is considered to have heavily influenced several literary schools, most notably Symbolism, and his impact on Russian writing has been compared to that of James Joyce on the English speaking world.

David McDuff (b. 1945) was educated at the University of Edinburgh where he studied German and Russian. His publications comprise a large number of translations of foreign verse and prose, including poems by Jospeh Brodsky and Tomas Venclova, as well as contemporary Scandinavian work; Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam; Complete Poems of Edith Sdergran; and No I'm Not Afraid by Irina Ratushinskaya. His first book of verse, Words in Nature, appeared in 1972. He has also translated a number of nineteenth-century Russian prose works for the Penguin Classics series, including those of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov.

Adam Thirlwell (b.1978) studied English at New College, Oxford, and was subsequently elected as a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1999. In 2003 his first novel, Politics, won the Betty Trask Award, and Miss Herbert, published in 2007, won the Somerset Maugham Award. Thirlwell's third novel, The Escape, was published in September 2009.

Type
BOOK

Keyword Index
City and town life - Fiction.|Russia - History - Revolution, 1905-1907 - Fiction.|Saint Petersburg (Russia) - Fiction.

Country of Publication
England

Number of Pages
597

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