Petersburg

<p>Andrei Bely's novel <em>Petersburg</em> is considered one of the four greatest prose masterpieces of the 20th century. In this new edition of the best-selling translation the reader will have access to the translators' detailed commentary which provides the necessary historical and literary context for understanding the novel as well as a foreword by Olga Matich acclaimed scholar of Russian literature.</p><p>Set in 1905 in St. Petersburg a city in the throes of sociopolitical conflict the novel follows university student Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov who has gotten entangled with a revolutionary terrorist organization with plans to assassinate a government official-Nikolai's own father Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov. With a sprawling cast of characters set against a nightmarish city it is all at once a historical political philosophical and darkly comedic novel.</p>