The Red Jester: Andrei Bely's Petersburg as a Novel of the European Modern - Judith Wermuth - Google Books

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What was Andrei Bely's aim in his ambiguous novel Petersburg? For the first time, this study firmly places Bely's work at the heart of the European Modern (die Moderne). The book argues that the novel - with its concern for the spiritual and its desire to…