The First Encounter

ISBN: 9780691603131 出版年：2015 页码：167 Bely, Andrey Princeton University Press

First published in russian in 1921 and never translated, audrey 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 paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions.