Andrey Bely : Spirit of Symbolism.

No figure in turn-of-the-century Russia, John Malmstad asserts, better epitomizes the paradoxes of that era than Andrey Bely (1880-1934). Eulogized by Boris Pasternak as "the most remarkable writer of our age" and now widely regarded as the seminal figure in Russian modernism and as one of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Malmstad, John E.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2019.
Series:Studies of the Harriman Institute.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvv412r9
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; ANDREY BELY; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. Bely's Symphonies; 2. The Silver Dove; 3. Petersburg; 4. Kotik Letaev, The Baptized Chinaman, and Notes of an Eccentric; 5. Moscow and Masks; 6. Bely's Memoirs; 7. Bely's Poetry and Verse Theory; 8. Bely's Theory of Symbolism as a Formal Iconics of Meaning; 9. Bely the Thinker; 10. Seeing and Hearing Andrey Bely: Sketches from Afar; Bibliography; Contributors; Index