Петербург by Andrei Bely
Роман
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.
- Published
- 1913
- Nationality
- Russian
- Length
- Medium
- Pages
- 300-350
- Original Language
- Russian
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(4.0)
- Alternate Titles
- - Petersburg
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