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After enlisting in a revolutionary terrorist organization, the university student Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov is entrusted with a highly dangerous mission: to plant a bomb and assassinate a major government figure. But the real central character of the novel is the city of Petersburg at the beginning of the twentieth century, caught in the grip of political agitation and social unrest. Intertwining the worlds of history and myth, and parading a cast of unforgettable characters, Petersburg is a story of apocalypse and redemption played out through family dysfunction, conspiracy and murder. ** Review "The most important, most influential, and most perfectly realized Russian novel written in the 20th century." -  The * New York Times  Book Review * "This modernist novel, rightly regarded as one of the pinnacles of twentieth-century Russian literature, presents great challenges to the translator. With unswerving loyalty to the original, Elsworth has succeeded in capturing its idiosyncratic rhythms and elusive layers of meaning, producing a masterful translation that reads like a work of art in its own right." -  2012 Rossica Prize Judging Panel** "One of the four most important

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Author

Andrei Bely; transl. from the Russ. by John Elsworth

Publisher

Pushkin Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253035547

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction