Andrei Bely

• Apr-1996
• / General Fiction
• 

Set in Saint Petersburg during the Revolution of 1905, this classic of Russian literature draws comparisons to James Joyce’s Ulysses for its display of symbolism and humor   After enlisting in a revolutionary terrorist organization, the univer...

• Jun-1999
• / General Fiction
• 

One of the most important works of twentieth-century Russian prose, Kotik Letaev, the great symbolist novel of childhood, depicts the emergence of consciousness and its development into self-consciousness in a Russian boy growing up among the Moscow ...

• Jul-2001
• / Literary
• 

The Silver Dove, published four years before Bely's masterpiece Petersburg, is considered the first modern Russian novel. Breaking with Russian realism, and a pioneering Symbolist work, its vividly drawn characters, elemental landscapes, and rich sty...

• Dec-2016
• / General Fiction
• 

THIS UNDERAPPRECIATED GEM OF A NOVEL by one of Russia’s finest writers explores some of the thorniest issues of the early twentieth century. An absent-minded professor and a glamorous yet bumbling spy struggle over a powerful secret formula in this...

• Nov-2021
• / General Fiction
• 

Andrei Bely is best known for the modernist masterwork Petersburg, a paradigmatic example of how modern writers strove to evoke the fragmentation of language, narrative, and consciousness. In the early twentieth century, Bely embarked on his life as ...