![]() Considered by writers such as Vladimir Nabokov to be one of the greatest masterpieces of the twentieth century, Bely's richly textured, darkly comic and symbolic novel pulled apart the traditional techniques of storytelling and presaged the dawn of a new form of literature. It is also an impressionistic, exhilarating panorama of the city itself, watched over by the bronze statue of Peter the Great, as it tears itself apart. Petersburg is a story of suspense, family dysfunction, patricide, conspiracy and revolution. But the official is Nikolai's cold, unyielding father, Apollon, and in twenty-four hours the bomb will explode. An impressionable young university student, Nikolai, becomes involved with a revolutionary terror organization, which plans to assassinate a high government official with a time bomb. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Russian by David McDuff with an introduction by Adam Thirlwell.
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