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Thirty-year-old Piotr Alekseevich Marakulin lives a contented, if humdrum life as a financial clerk in a Petersburg trading company. He is jolted out of his daily routine when, quite unexpectedly, he is accused of embezzlement and loses his job. This change of status brings him into contact with a number of women-the titular "sisters of the cross"-whose sufferings will lead him to question the ultimate meaning of the universe.The first English translation of this remarkable 1910 novel by Alexei Remizov, an influential member of the Russian Symbolist movement, Sisters of the Cross is a masterpiece of early modernist fiction. In the tradition of Gogol's Petersburg Tales and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, it deploys densely packed psychological prose and fluctuating narrative perspective to tell the story of a "poor clerk" who rebels against the suffering and humiliation afflicting both his own life and the lives of the remarkable women whom he encounters in the tenement building where he lives in Petersburg. The novel reaches its haunting climax at the beginning of the Whitsuntide festival, when Marakulin thinks he glimpses the coming of salvation both for himself and for the "fallen" actress Verochka, the unacknowledged love of his life, in one of the most powerfully drawn scenes in Symbolist literature. Remizov is best known as a writer of short stories and fairy tales, but this early novel, masterfully translated by Roger Keys and Brian Murphy, is perhaps his most significant work of sustained artistic prose.

Remizov, Alekseĭ, --- Remisoff, Alexei, --- Remisov, Alexej Michailowitsch, --- Remisow, Alexej, --- Remizov, A. --- Remizov, A. M. --- Remizov, Alekseĭ --- Remizov, Alekseĭ Mikhaĭlovich, --- Remizov, Aleksey Mikhaylovich, --- Remizov, Aleksi︠e︡ĭ, --- Remizov, Aleksi︠e︡ĭ Mikhaĭlovich, --- Riemizow, Aleksy, --- Ремизов, А. М. --- Ремизов, Алексей, --- Ремизов, Алексей Михайлович, --- Ремизов, Алексѣй, --- Ремизов, Алексѣй Михайлович, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Former Soviet Union. --- Ремизов, Алексей, --- Ремизов, Алексей Михайлович, --- Ремизов, Алексѣй, --- Ремизов, Алексѣй Михайлович,

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Celebrating the one-hundredth anniversary of Andrey Bely's Petersburg, this volume offers a cross-section of essays that address the most pertinent aspects of his 1916 masterpiece. The plot is relatively a simple one: Nikolai Apollonovich is ordered by a group of terrorists to assassinate his father, the prominent senator, Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov. Nevertheless, Bely's polyphonic, experimental prose invokes such diverse themes as: Greek mythology, the apocalypse, family dynamics, psychology, Russian history, theosophy, revolution, and European literary influences. Considered by Vladimir Nabokov to be one of the twentieth century's four greatest masterpieces, Petersburg is the first novel in which the city is the hero. Frequently compared to Joyce's Ulysses, no novel did more to help launch modernism in turn-of-the century Russia.

Russian prose literature --- History and criticism. --- Bely, Andrey, --- Бугаев, Борис Николаевич, --- Bugaev, Boris Nikolaevich, --- Белый, Андрей, --- Belyĭ, Andreĭ, --- Бѣлый, Андрей, --- Bi︠e︡lyĭ, Andreĭ, --- Biely, Andrei, --- Belyj, Andrej, --- Beli, Andrej, --- Byely, Andrei, --- Bely, Andrei, --- Biely, Andrey, --- Bieły, Andrzej, --- Белый, А. --- Belyĭ, A. --- Bieły, Andriej, --- ביילי, אנדרי, --- アンドレイ・ベールイ, --- Belîi, Andrei, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Белый, А. --- Белый, Андрей, --- Бѣлый, Андрей, --- Russian prose literature. --- History and criticism --- Peterburg (Bely, Andrey). --- 1900-1999.