First published in Russian in 1921 and never translated, Andrey Bely's long narrative poem--considered to be one of the great achievements of Russian Modernism--is translated to English here. A poet, critic, philosopher, and novelist, Bely was a leading figure among the Russian Symbolists, and The First Encounter is thought to be his greatest work in verse. The poem is autobiographical and reflects turn of-the-century Moscow with its mixture of entrenched positivism and new spiritualistic trends, cultural variety and the ...
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First published in Russian in 1921 and never translated, Andrey Bely's long narrative poem--considered to be one of the great achievements of Russian Modernism--is translated to English here. A poet, critic, philosopher, and novelist, Bely was a leading figure among the Russian Symbolists, and The First Encounter is thought to be his greatest work in verse. The poem is autobiographical and reflects turn of-the-century Moscow with its mixture of entrenched positivism and new spiritualistic trends, cultural variety and the upheaval of the time. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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I purchased this primarily to retain in my home library Berberova's account of Pushkin's mode of reciting poetry, which was heard by the young Turgenev, who taught it to Polonsky and Pleshcheev, who taught it to Merezhkovskii, who taught it to Berberova. This priceless chain of transmission, which could have been broken so easily, just think! is preserved here, only in this book, so far as I know. The Russian text of the poem has on the facing page an English translation but unfortunately the Russian was not annotated with accent marks so the nonnative speaker must go to dictionaries in order to practice reciting the verse of this important early twentieth-century innovator. Berberova was "on a mission" to chronicle what she witnessed of the diaspora of the prerevolutionary Russian intelligentsia and in that she succeeded magnificently.
