Petersburg
Published on 28. February 2009
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Paperback/Softback
576 pages
978-1-901285-96-3 (ISBN)
Description
After enlisting in a revolutionary terrorist organization, university student Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov is entrusted with a highly dangerous mission: to plant a bomb and assassinate a major government figure. But the real central character of the novel is the city of Petersburg at the beginning of the twentieth century, caught in the grip of political agitation and social unrest. Intertwining the worlds of history and myth, and parading a cast of unforgettable characters, Petersburg is a story of apocalypse and redemption played out through family dysfunction, conspiracy and murder.
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One of the four most important works of twentieth century literatureA" VLADIMIR NABOKOV "The one novel that sums up the whole of Russia" Anthony BURGESS "The most important, most influential, and most perfectly realized Russian novel written in the 20th century" New York Times Book Review "A man of strange unheard-of insights- magical and a holy fool in the tradition of Russian Orthodoxy" ISAIAH BERLINMore details
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Andrei Bely (whose real name was Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev), was born in 1880 into a family of illustrious intellectuals. Bely's writing heavily influenced the Russian Symbolist movement and the subsequent Modernist school - his significance in world literature is often compared to that of James Joyce. He died in Moscow in January 1934.