Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Bely draws on news, fashion, psychology, and ordinary people to create a distinctive and timeless literary triumph.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Exploring themes of history, identity, and family, it sees the young Russian Nikolai Ableukhov chased through the misty Petersburg streets, tasked with planting a bomb intended to kill a government official-his own father. All items in are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.'The most important Russian novel of the 20th century.'Ĭonsidered Andrei Bely's masterpiece, Petersburg, is a pioneering modernist novel, ranked in importance alongside Ulysses, The Metamorphosis, and In Search of Lost Time, that captures Russia's capital during the short, turbulent period of the first socialist revolution in 1905.Russian literature - History and criticism.Bely, Andrey, 1880-1934 - Criticism and interpretation.

Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852 - Criticism and interpretation.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 - Criticism and interpretation. Petersburg, a city in the throes of sociopolitical conflict, the novel follows university student Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov, who has gotten entangled with a revolutionary terrorist organization with plans to assassinate a government officialNikolai's own father, Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov.

The final chapter is a study of six major recurrent themes which link the urban novels of Gogol, Dostoevsky and Bely. The predominantly tragic fate of the novelists' heroes is discussed in the third chapter. The second chapter is an investigation of the overall image of the city as presented to the reader by the three writers. Petersburg, and a discussion of the influence of the French feuilletons on the nineteenth-century Russian urban novel. This dissertation is divided into four chapters, the first of which is a survey of the attitudes held by the literary predecessors and contemporaries of Gogol, Dostoevsky and Bely toward St.

Petersburg, and whose feelings for their city were a bizarre mixture of love and hatred. Gogol, Dostoevsky and Bely are three Russian novelists, most of whose writings are set in the city of St.

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