Petersburg
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Overview
Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg is considered one of the four greatest prose masterpieces of the 20th century. In this new edition of the best-selling translation, the reader will have access to the translators' detailed commentary, which provides the necessary historical and literary context for understanding the novel, as well as a foreword by Olga Matich, acclaimed scholar of Russian literature.
Set in 1905 in St. 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 official-Nikolai's own father, Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov. With a sprawling cast of characters, set against a nightmarish city, it is all at once a historical, political, philosophical, and darkly comedic novel.
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- ISBN-13: 9780253034113
- ISBN-10: 0253034116
- Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
- Publish Date: May 2018
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.25 pounds
- Page Count: 404
- Reading Level: Ages 18-UP
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