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<P><P>Andrei Bely's novel <EM>Petersburg</EM> 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.</P><br/><P>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.<BR></P></P>
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Bely, Andrei
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780253034113
- Category
- humor
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.43 / 5 (30 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Petersburg : a Novel in Eight Chapters, with a Prologue and an Epilogue (2011)
- Petersburg (Translated by McDuff 1995) (1916)
- Petersburg (Penguin Classics) (2011)
- Petersburg (2012)
- Petersburg : a Novel in Eight Chapters, with a Prologue and an Epilogue (1913)
- Petersburg: a novel in eight chapters, with a prologue and an epilogue: A Novel in Eight Chapters (2011)
- Petersburg (Sources and translation series of the Russian Institute, Columbia University) (1978)
- Petersburg : a Novel in Eight Chapters, with a Prologue and an Epilogue (2009)
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