Andrey Bely's "Petersburg

This collection of studies by American, British, Scandinavian, Russian and Israeli scholars is a welcome contribution to our knowledge of Belyis extraordinary novel. What this collection does, and does brilliantly, is not so much to promote Petersburg to a wider readership as to provide a fascinating companion-guide, a complex and erudite Baedecker to the living world of Belyis invention, a guide which helps us situate it in its early twentieth-century Russian and European context. Avril Pyman, University of Durham, Slavonic and East European Review Vol. 96, No. 4 * Slavonic and East European Review *

Olga M. Cooke is Associate Professor of Russian at Texas A&M University. She edits Gulag Studies. Her recent publications focus on the works of Andrey Bely and on Gulag literature. She is completing a book called 'The Most Interesting Man in Russia:' Andrey Bely's Life in Letters.

Foreword by Thomas R. Beyer Jr. Acknowledgments Vladimir Nabokov, On Petersburg Introduction by Olga M. Cooke Carol Anschuetz, Belys Petersburg and the End of the Russian Novel Maria Carlson, Andrei Belys Astral Novel: A Theosophical Reading of Petersburg Charlene Castellano, Synesthesia as Apocalypse in Andrey Belys Petersburg Jacob Emery, Kinship and Figure in Andrey Belys Petersburg Roger Keys, Metafiction in Andrey Belys Novel Petersburg Timothy Langen, Petersburg as a Historical Novel Aleksandr V. Lavrov, Andrey Bely between Conrad and Chesterton Magnus Ljunggren, The Bomb, the Baby, the Book Anna Ponomareva, Know Thyself: From the Temple of Apollo at Delphi to the Pages of Petersburg Ada Steinberg, Fragmentary Prototypes in Andrey Belys Novel Petersburg Adam Weiner, The Enchanted Point of Petersburg Judith Wermuth-Atkinson, Reality and Appearance in Petersburg and the Viennese Secession Contributors