Kotik Letaev

ISBN-13: 9780810116269 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 268 str.

Andrei Bely; Gerald J. Janecek

Opis

One of the most important works of twentieth-century Russian prose, "Kotik Letaev, " the great symbolist novel of childhood, depicts the emergence of consciousness and its development into self-consciousness in a Russian boy growing up among the Moscow intelligentsia in the 1800s.
Kotik's experience is based on elements from Bely's own early childhood, but on a larger level his experience represents the stages of human history, the history of philosophy, and childhood language development. The story, seen through the eyes of a child from the age of three to five years, is told in complex, poetically developed adult language, rich in imagery and musical sound effects.