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Andrei Bely

by Konstantin Mochulsky

$40 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in original printed wrappers. Book shows moderate shelfwear, with taping to spine and creasing to upper outside corner of front cover. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 292 pages. Russian-language biography of Andrei Bely (1880-1934), Russian novelist, Symbolist poet, theorist and literary critic. His novel "Petersburg" (1913/1922) was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as the third-greatest masterpiece of modernist literature. This work was published posthumously from unfinished manuscripts. It was the first scholarly biography of Bely to be written, with substantial discussion of Bely's work.

  • Publisher: YMCA-Press
  • Year: 1955
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: paperback

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