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Andrei Bely The Symphonies (Paperback) Russian Library
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- Book Title
- Symphonies
- Publication Name
- The Symphonies
- Title
- The Symphonies
- Translator
- Jonathan Stone
- Contributor
- Jonathan Stone (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0231199090
- EAN
- 9780231199094
- ISBN
- 9780231199094
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Genre
- Literary Collections, Fiction
- Topic
- Visionary & Metaphysical, Literary, Russian & Former Soviet Union
- Release Year
- 2021
- Release Date
- 02/11/2021
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Length
- 0.9in
- Series
- Russian Library
- Original Language
- Russian
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 21.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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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 an artist with texts he called "symphonies"--works experimenting with genre and sound, written in a style that shifts among prosaic, poetic, and musical. This book presents Bely's four Symphonies --"Dramatic Symphony," "Northern Symphony," "The Return," and "Goblet of Blizzards"--fantastically strange stories that capture the banality of life, the intimacy of love, and the enchantment of art. The Symphonies are quintessential works of modernist innovation in which Bely developed an evocative mythology and distinctive aesthetics. Influenced by Russian Symbolism, Bely believed that the role of modern artists was to imbue seemingly small details with cosmic significance. The Symphonies depict the drabness of daily life with distinct irony and satire--and then soar out of turn-of-the-century Moscow into the realm of the infinite and eternal. They conjure worlds that resemble our own but reveal elements of artifice and magic, hinting at mystical truths and the complete transfiguration of life. Showcasing the protean quality of Bely's language and storytelling, Jonathan Stone's translation of the Symphonies features some of the most captivating and beguiling writing of Russia's Silver Age.
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231199090
ISBN-13
9780231199094
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22050026564
Product Key Features
Book Title
Symphonies
Original Language
Russian
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Visionary & Metaphysical, Literary, Russian & Former Soviet Union
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Literary Collections, Fiction
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Pg3453.B84s513 2021
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[A] sensitive and resourceful translation by Jonathan Stone . . . Collectively, The Symphonies offer a glimpse into the cradle of Bely's art: less fully achieved than his mature novels, but closer to a common source in the author's twisted and escapist imagination . . . as a record of Bely's transformation from writer of precious verse to writer of disquieting prose, they possess a palpable energy and excitement and commitment., Intermodal art was central to Russian Symbolism, but Bely's four Symphonies resist easy definition. Rhythmic, motivic, visionary, commingling mundane matter with elevated spirit and shot through with satire, they relay Bely's sense of symphonic music as a linkage of levels and moods. Jonathan Stone's exquisite translation suspends the reader between the real and the more real., The richly saturated prose of Bely's innovative Symphonies demands an effective translation. Jonathan Stone has made a scrupulous, powerful version that conveys the work's mythological complexity and the hypnotic effect of its verbal and musical texture. An essential book for study of the Symbolists., Otherworldly tales of haunting beauty and a welcome addition to the canon of classic Russian literature in English., Those who read Stone's introduction and translation with care will come away with an understanding that will enable them to appreciate what Bely is undertaking in the Symphonies , even as they work through the profusion of imagery and the fragmentary structure of these writings. There are very few works that compete with this volume in any way., Belyi's particular aspirations entailed the harmonization of empirical, rational, evocative, and mystical aspects of symbolization, and in this respect the work of translation is similar: the demands of denotation and suggestion, content and form, idea and feeling, and presence and potential bear simultaneously on the project and must all be coordinated with minimal loss and maximal effect. With this daunting task, on these challenging texts, Stone succeeds brilliantly., The four works are all worthwhile in their own right but are, of course, interesting both for showing us the Bely the Symbolist in full flight but also showing us the writer of ( Petersburg ) in his early days., Stone's translation reads convincingly throughout, giving as good a sense as is probably achievable in English of what Bely was trying to do. It's a tremendous achievement., 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., [A] Symbolist masterpiece by the writer whose work Vladimir Nabokov ranked among Russia's greatest literary achievements . . . Otherworldly tales of haunting beauty and a welcome addition to the canon of classic Russian literature in English.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Note on the Text Introduction Northern Symphony (First, Heroic) Dramatic Symphony (Second) The Return (Third Symphony) A Goblet of Blizzards (Fourth Symphony) Notes
Lccn
2021-004538
Dewey Decimal
891.733
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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