The Dramatic Symphony: The Forms Of Art
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
At the volatile intersection of music, mysticism, and Russian Symbolism stands Andrey Bely's The Dramatic Symphony — a pioneering work that blurs the boundary between prose and poetry, narrative and musical composition. Written in 1902, this audacious early novel chronicles the inner spiritual and philosophical torments of a young Moscow intellectual, set against a backdrop of fin-de-siècle Russian society saturated with Solovyovian mysticism and apocalyptic yearning. Bound together with Bely's landmark theoretical essay The Forms of Art, this volume presents two essential faces of one of Russian literature's most radical minds — the visionary fiction writer and the incisive aesthetic theorist. Bely's prose in The Dramatic Symphony unfolds in numbered, verse-like sections that mirror the movements of a symphony, a structural experiment that would come to define Russian Modernism and anticipate the fragmented techniques of the European avant-garde. The Forms of Art argues with fierce intellectual conviction that music represents the supreme artistic form, a thesis that illuminates the novel's very architecture and reveals Bely's profound debt to Schopenhauer and Wagner. Together, these two works offer an indispensable key to understanding not only Bely's later masterpiece Petersburg, but the entire trajectory of literary Modernism — leaving the reader to wonder how one writer's obsession with sound could so permanently alter the shape of the written word.
Author: Andrey Bely
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
At the volatile intersection of music, mysticism, and Russian Symbolism stands Andrey Bely's The Dramatic Symphony — a pioneering work that blurs the boundary between prose and poetry, narrative and musical composition. Written in 1902, this audacious early novel chronicles the inner spiritual and philosophical torments of a young Moscow intellectual, set against a backdrop of fin-de-siècle Russian society saturated with Solovyovian mysticism and apocalyptic yearning. Bound together with Bely's landmark theoretical essay The Forms of Art, this volume presents two essential faces of one of Russian literature's most radical minds — the visionary fiction writer and the incisive aesthetic theorist. Bely's prose in The Dramatic Symphony unfolds in numbered, verse-like sections that mirror the movements of a symphony, a structural experiment that would come to define Russian Modernism and anticipate the fragmented techniques of the European avant-garde. The Forms of Art argues with fierce intellectual conviction that music represents the supreme artistic form, a thesis that illuminates the novel's very architecture and reveals Bely's profound debt to Schopenhauer and Wagner. Together, these two works offer an indispensable key to understanding not only Bely's later masterpiece Petersburg, but the entire trajectory of literary Modernism — leaving the reader to wonder how one writer's obsession with sound could so permanently alter the shape of the written word.