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,...
One of the most important works of twentieth-century Russian prose, "Kotik Letaev, " the great symbolist novel of childhood, depicts the emergence of ...
When one great author engages another, as Andrei Bely so brilliantly does in "Gogol s Artistry, "the result is inevitably a telling portrait of both writers. So it is in "Gogol s Artistry. "Translated into English for the first time, this idiosyncratic, exhaustive critical study is as interesting for what it tells us about Bely s thought and method as it is for its insights into the oeuvre of his literary predecessor. Bely s argument in this book is that Gogol s earlier writing should be given more consideration than most critics have granted. Employing what might be called a scientific...
When one great author engages another, as Andrei Bely so brilliantly does in "Gogol s Artistry, "the result is inevitably a telling portrait of bot...
Andrei Bely was the greatest Russian writer of the twentieth century. Chiefly known outside of Russia as a novelist (his Petersburg is the best modern Russian novel), he was also a leading symbolist poet and profound philosophical critic. Bely was also a mystic who had an unsurpassed ability to express his visions in writing, and he often did so in the form of lyrical essays, a selection of which is offered here. Many of these essays were written as the twentieth century stood at the threshold of a new epoch. For Bely, a new religious consciousness was emerging, rooted in Vladimir Solovyov's...
Andrei Bely was the greatest Russian writer of the twentieth century. Chiefly known outside of Russia as a novelist (his Petersburg is the best modern...