The Moscow Eccentric - Softcover

Bely, Andrei

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880100479 ISBN 13: 9781880100479

Verlag: Russian Information Services, 2016

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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 tale filled with eccentric personalities, wild dialogue, improbably sounds, bristling images and vivid colors. In The Moscow Eccentric Andrei Bely challenges readers not only with his ideas, but by presenting them in a what he called an “epic poem in prose format.” Built on a rhythmic backbone of metered prose that supports a wondrous array of literary devices, both poetic and prosaic, Bely’s language play is breathtaking. He is as brilliant on a huge canvas depicting spectacular swaths of city life as he is in detailing the patterns of snow on a small stretch of sidewalk. He surprises and thrills readers with constant tonal and stylistic variation, moving effortlessly from lyrical descriptions of nature to slapstick physical and verbal parody of Russia’s social milieu. Brought into English for the first time by award-winning translator Brendan Kiernan, and peppered with original illustrations by Katya Korobkina, this is a stunning, poetic, and powerful novel by the author of Petersburg, which Vladimir Nabokov called one of the four best novels of the twentieth century.

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About the Author: Andrei Bely (1880-1934), born Boris Nikolayevich Bugayev, lived in Moscow and became a novelist, poet, and literary theorist and critic. Vladimir Nabokov ranked Bely’s Petersburg one of the four best novels of the twentieth century. Bely’s prose and poetry were deeply influenced by both his theoretical constructs and, unusually, empirical analysis of his own and others’ work. Bely lived and worked in both tsarist and Bolshevik Russia, and, like many of his contemporaries, spent some years traveling and living in Europe. About the Translator: Brendan Kiernan is a freelance translator and political analyst. A student of Russian language and literature since 1977, he earned a Ph.D in Political Science from Indiana University as well as an area studies certificate from IU’s famed Russian and East European Institute. His translation of Vladimir Gilyarovsky’s classic book, Moscow and Muscovites, was published by Russian Life Books in 2013, and in 2015 won the prestigious AATSEEL prize for Best Scholarly Translation from a Slavic Language into English.

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• Verlag: Russian Information Services
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1880100479
• ISBN 13: 9781880100479
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 298
• Zeichner: Korobkina Katya