Petersburg

✍ Scribed by Andrei Bely; Robert A. Maguire; John E. Malmstad; Olga Matich

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 529 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Chapter the first: in which an account is given of a certain worthy person, his mental games, and the ephemerality of being -- Chapter the second: in which an account is given of a certain rendezvous fraught with consequences -- Chapter the third: in which is described how Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov makes a fool of himself and his venture -- Chapter the fourth: in which the line of the narrative is broken -- Chapter the fifth: in which an account is given of the little fellow with the wart by his nose and of the sardine tin with horrible contents -- Chapter the sixth: in which are related the events of a gray little day -- Chapter the seventh: or, the events of a gray little day go on and on -- Chapter the eighth: and last -- Epilogue.;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 entangled himself 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--back cover.