Audrey Bely: A Critical Study of the Novels

by J. D. Elsworth and J.D. Elsworth

Book Overview

Audrey Bely was one of the most innovative prose writers in Russian in the twentieth century. This book traces the development of his technique as a novelist from the early experimental Symphonies (1902-8) to the last novel, Masks, published in 1932. In the first two chapters of the book, Dr Elsworth explores Bely's theoretical writings on the aesthetic theory of Symbolism, and his association, after 1912, with the doctrines of Rudolf Steiner. Bely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521124557
• ISBN13: 9780521124553
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"