![]() ![]() ![]() Photo of Andrei Bely (1910s) from Wikipedia, Creative Commons. An impressionable young university student. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Russian by David McDuff with an introduction by Adam Thirlwell. A paragraph from Gerald Janacek’s The Look of Russian Literature that notes the shapes of the poems in “The Princess and the Knights” cycle Andrei Bely's masterpiece, Petersburg is a vivid, striking story set at the heart of the 1905 Russian revolution.A wonderfully detailed review of David McDuff’s translation of Petersburg.“A Voice from the Past” is from Bely’s “fairytale” cycle “The Princess and the Knights,” which was inspired by his first wife, Anna Turgeneva.īely is probably best known in the West for his novel Petersburg, a favorite of Vladimir Nabokov’s: Petersburg evokes (among other things) revolutionaries, a statue freed from its pedestal, and lots of colors, (as befits Bely’s symbolist leanings), including, of course, red.īy the way: John Elsworth’s translation of Bely’s Petersburg won two translation awards in 2012: the Read Russia Prize and the Rossica Prize. 28 A fourth-century calyx-crater, displayed in the Hermitage in St Petersburg. Symbolist poet Andrei Bely’s recitation of his 1911 poem “A Voice from the Past,” replete with roiling, rolling r’s, conjures the feel of fog and the sound of swords of knights from far-away lands galloping north to save a princess. the Dionysian in Andrei Belys Petersburg: Studia Slavica 32 (1986). ![]() Audio Andrei Bely’s Silver Age Symbolist Chivalry ![]()
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