Bely, Andrei (əndrā` byĕ`lē), pseud. of Boris Nikolayevich Bugayev (bûryēs` nyĭkəlī`əvyĭch' b
gī`ĭf), 1880–1934, Russian writer. A leading symbolist symbolists, in literature, a school originating in France toward the end of the 19th cent. in reaction to the naturalism and realism of the period. Designed to convey impressions by suggestion rather than by direct statement, symbolism found its first expression in
..... Click the link for more information. , he had a close but stormy relationship with Aleksandr Blok Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (əlyĭksän`dər əlyĭksän`drəvĭch blôk)
..... Click the link for more information. . His poetry includes the four-volume Symphonies (1901–8); his best prose is in the novels The Silver Dove (1910) and Petersburg (1912, tr. 1959) and in Kotik Letayev (1922), an autobiographical novel in the manner of James Joyce. He was an experimenter—his involved style often mixes realism and symbolism in complex forms. In his later years Bely was influenced by Rudolph Steiner Steiner, Rudolf (r
..... Click the link for more information. 's anthroposophy. He accepted the Soviet regime, but his works were not well received by Soviet critics. By the mid-1970s Western critics had discovered Bely, and several, including Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov, Vladimir (vlädē`mĭr näbô`kŏf), 1899–1977, Russian-American author, b. St. Petersburg, Russia.
..... Click the link for more information. , proclaimed him the most important Russian writer of the 20th cent. In 1974 new translations of The Silver Dove and Kotik Letayev were published in the United States, and in 1977 a new translation of Petersburg.
gī`ĭf), 1880–1934, Russian writer. A leading symbolist symbolists, in literature, a school originating in France toward the end of the 19th cent. in reaction to the naturalism and realism of the period. Designed to convey impressions by suggestion rather than by direct statement, symbolism found its first expression in..... Click the link for more information. , he had a close but stormy relationship with Aleksandr Blok Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (əlyĭksän`dər əlyĭksän`drəvĭch blôk)
..... Click the link for more information. . His poetry includes the four-volume Symphonies (1901–8); his best prose is in the novels The Silver Dove (1910) and Petersburg (1912, tr. 1959) and in Kotik Letayev (1922), an autobiographical novel in the manner of James Joyce. He was an experimenter—his involved style often mixes realism and symbolism in complex forms. In his later years Bely was influenced by Rudolph Steiner Steiner, Rudolf (r
..... Click the link for more information. 's anthroposophy. He accepted the Soviet regime, but his works were not well received by Soviet critics. By the mid-1970s Western critics had discovered Bely, and several, including Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov, Vladimir (vlädē`mĭr näbô`kŏf), 1899–1977, Russian-American author, b. St. Petersburg, Russia.
..... Click the link for more information. , proclaimed him the most important Russian writer of the 20th cent. In 1974 new translations of The Silver Dove and Kotik Letayev were published in the United States, and in 1977 a new translation of Petersburg.
Bibliography
See study by J. D. Elsworth (1984).
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