Encountering The Symphonies in Jonathan Stone's sensitive renderings, one is struck anew by their daring innovation, which seems as fresh today as it did more than a century ago. As this handsome new edition demonstrates, Bely has outlived the fashions of later years: his works remain 'turned towards the future', their exuberance and brisk pace still urging readers on.

Autorentext
Andrei Bely, the pseudonym of Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (18801934), was a central figure of Russian symbolism and modernism as a poet, novelist, and theorist. He was a proponent of innovation who aimed both to revolutionize Russian literature and to find a philosophical framework for modernist techniques. His books include The Silver Dove, Petersburg, and Kotik Letaev.

Jonathan Stone is associate professor of Russian at Franklin & Marshall College. His books include The Institutions of Russian Modernism: Conceptualizing, Publishing, and Reading Symbolism (2017) and Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture: Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s (2019).

Klappentext

This book presents Andrei Bely's four Symphonies-"Dramatic Symphony," "Northern Symphony," "The Return," and "Goblet of Blizzards"-fantastically strange stories and quintessential works of modernist innovation.

Zusammenfassung
This book presents Andrei Bely's four SymphoniesDramatic Symphony, Northern Symphony, The Return, and Goblet of Blizzardsfantastically strange stories and quintessential works of modernist innovation.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments
Note on the Text
Introduction
Northern Symphony (First, Heroic)
Dramatic Symphony (Second)
The Return (Third Symphony)
A Goblet of Blizzards (Fourth Symphony)
Notes