Andrei Bely
Andrei Bely, born Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, was a Russian novelist, poet, theorist, and literary critic. He is best known for his novel 'Petersburg,' which is considered one of the most important works of Russian modernist literature.
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1. Petersburg
A Novel in Eight Chapters with a Prologue and an Epilogue
"Petersburg" is a symbolist novel set in the heart of Russia during the 1905 Revolution. It follows the story of a young man who is given the task of assassinating his own father, a high-ranking government official, by a radical political group. The narrative is a complex mix of politics, family drama, and philosophical introspection, all set against the backdrop of a city in turmoil. The novel is renowned for its vivid and poetic descriptions of the city itself, making Petersburg as much a character in the story as the people who inhabit it.
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2. Петербург
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A kaleidoscopic, symbolist-modernist portrait of a turn-of-the-century imperial capital in which a young man's inner turmoil—caught between filial duty, erotic longing and the pull of radical politics—unfolds against streets, bridges and apartment blocks that seem alive. Lyrical, hallucinatory prose collapses dream and reality as an assassination plot, chance encounters and family conflict are transfigured into motifs of clocks, spirals, angles and angels; the city itself becomes a character that shapes fate. The narrative fuses political unrest and personal obsession into philosophical meditations on time, identity and the limits of rational action, producing a feverish, polyphonic vision of a society teetering toward rupture.
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