Petersburg
24 hrs. 56 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Andrei Bely
Author
Andrei Bely
Narrator
Alexander Ruzheynikov
Narrator
Alexander Ruzheynikov
Andrei Bely, also known as Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, was an important figure of the Silver Age. He was a symbolist writer, a mystic, and an experimenter.
In the novel “Petersburg,” the city is the main character. Petersburg is depicted as a painful and fascinating place—a dream-city and a hallucination-city, where the fates of various people intertwine. The revolutionary Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov is tasked with killing his father, Senator Ableukhov.
The author conceived the novel as the final chord of the myth of Petersburg created over a century by Russian literary geniuses. According to Bely, the city on the Neva symbolized Russia’s shaky state at the beginning of the 20th century.
Originally the novel was titled “The Lacquered Carriage,” but Vyacheslav Ivanov suggested the name “Petersburg.”
The text is written in rhythmic prose with poetic elements.
Nabokov called the novel the third great work of world literature of the 20th century after Joyce’s “Ulysses” and Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis.”
This edition presents the full unedited version of the novel.
In the novel “Petersburg,” the city is the main character. Petersburg is depicted as a painful and fascinating place—a dream-city and a hallucination-city, where the fates of various people intertwine. The revolutionary Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov is tasked with killing his father, Senator Ableukhov.
The author conceived the novel as the final chord of the myth of Petersburg created over a century by Russian literary geniuses. According to Bely, the city on the Neva symbolized Russia’s shaky state at the beginning of the 20th century.
Originally the novel was titled “The Lacquered Carriage,” but Vyacheslav Ivanov suggested the name “Petersburg.”
The text is written in rhythmic prose with poetic elements.
Nabokov called the novel the third great work of world literature of the 20th century after Joyce’s “Ulysses” and Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis.”
This edition presents the full unedited version of the novel.
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