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TERESCHENKO, Mikhail Ivanovich (1886-1956) (publ

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St. Petersburg: ["Sirin"], 1913-1914. 3 vols. 8vo (230 x 165 mm). Original decorated gray wrappers. Condition: wrappers slightly discolored and spotted, library stamps to rear wrappers on two vols., slight chipping to backstrip extremities. complete run of this poetry annual. With contributuons by Aleksandr Blok, Andrei Belyi, Valerii Briusov, Zimaida Gippius, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Aleksei Remizov, Fedor Sologub and others. These volumes contain the first publication of Bely's masterpiece Petersburg after Petr Berngardovich Struve rejected it for his journal Russkaya mysl [Russian Thought]. It appeared in book form in 1916. Bely revised the text and published this version in Berlin in 1922. Vladimir Nabokov thought Petersburg was one of the "greatest masterpieces of twentieth century prose," next only to Joyce's Ulysses (1922) and Kafka's "Metamorphosis" (1915) and above Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-1927). (3)

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