![]() ![]() It is accompanied by an introduction by Adam Thirwell discussing the novel's themes, extraordinary style and influence. This acclaimed translation captures all the idiosyncrasies and rhythms of Bely's extraordinary prose. ![]() 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. Bob Lee’s Tire Company has been a fixture in the Sunshine City for decades and it’s where nearly all residents have brought their car at least once. Petersburg, and it’s offering fresh coffee, pastries, hot and cold sandwiches, fresh salads, and delicious desserts. 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. Orange Belt Cafe has officially joined Bob Lee’s on 4th Street North in St. 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 organisation which plans to assassinate a high-ranking government official with a time bomb. ![]() 'The one novel that sums up the whole of Russia' – Anthony Burgess Andrei Belys novel Petersburg, first published in 1913, was declared by Vladimir Nabokov one of the. ![]()
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