Republication of ANDREI BELY'S PETERBURG (1922!)

[Anna Dranova]

Andrei Belyi. Peterburg (2012, The Birchbark Press of Karacharovo), 397 pp., ISBN 0-938618-19-9. 
This is the first republication of the Berlin edition of Peterburg (1922, Epokha). It is the first streamlined redaction that turned the rather cumbersome edition of 1916 into a poetic, fast-moving masterpiece. It has mystical and Christian allusions that were excised for the later Soviet editions. It probably deserves to be called the canonical text of the novel, and it was for good reason that Robert Maguire and John Malmsted chose this edition for their fine English translation. Our new edition comes with the graphic art of Aleksandr Tiumerov, the same amazing artist who illustrated Zapiski Bomzha. Tiumerov's drawings are based on the statues and architectural ornamentation of the city of St. Petersburg. Each chapter in the novel opens with a drawing that combines stylized figures from classical Greek and Roman mythology with statues in St. Petersburg's Summer Garden. Tiumerov's graphics make this book a tour de force. The text of the novel was
 meticulously edited by Robert Mann. His afterword on Bely's polemic with Nietzsche and on one of the novel's central mythological threads follows the text of Peterburg. 
Please direct inquiries to me at wolandusa at yahoo.com. 
 
Anna Dranova  

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