belyi andrei pseud (6 résultats)

12mo, pp. 50, [3]; a very good copy, uncut in the original printed wrappers, some minor tears to edges.First edition of these poems by Bely, written between 1904 and 1918. Kilgour 190; Tarasenkov, p. 53. Language: Russian.

8vo, pp. 125, [3]; a very good copy in the original printed wrappers designed by L.E. Chirikov, spine and edges of covers skilfully restored.First edition. Published the same year as Glossalolia, Bely's 'theory of the origin of the universe based on sound', this collection is another illustration of the poet's continued acoustic interests.Kilgour 188; Tarasenkov, p. 53. Language: Russian.

First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. 216, [8]; a very good copy in the original quarter cloth, paper boards designed by M. Kirnarsky.First edition of these sketches on the art of writing, published as an aid to young writers, with contributions from Bely, Gorky, Zamyatin, Zoshchenko, Kaverin, Lavrenev, Libedinsky, Nikitin, Pilnyak, Slonimsky, Tikhonov, Aleksei Tolstoy, Tynyanov, Fedin, Olga Forsh, Chapygin, Shishkov, and Shklovsky.Hellyer 164. Language: Russian.

8vo, pp. 46, [8 (publishers' catalogues)]; half-title adhering to front wrapper at upper inner margin, but a very good copy in the original buff printed wrappers; contemporary signature to title, occasional blue pencil marks in margin.First edition of Bely's important essay on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Tolstoy's death at Astapovo station in November 1910 brought Bely to a new appreciation of the author's genius. Yet along with it came a conviction of the irrelevance of 'form' to art and that even Tolstoy's 'revolutionary form' was an obstacle on the road to the 'reign of happiness'. The essay comes to a rousing conclusion in which Astapovo (i.e. the death of Tolstoy) becomes a symbol for the potential aesthetic future of Russia, 'surrounded by emptiness; and this emptiness is not an evil emptiness, but as clear as noonday, a radiant glade'. Bely had delivered the lecture on which this essay is based at a meeting of the Religio-Philosophical Society in November 1910. The young Boris Pasternak, who was later to reject Bely, was present at the meeting, and was inspired 'with a belated professional interest, he thought, to read the work of the symbolists and reread that of their precursors' (E. Pasternak, Boris Pasternak: Materialy dlia biografii (1989)). Not in Kilgour. Language: Russian.

Small 8vo, pp. 56, [8 (advertisements, blank)]; some minor stains to upper margin of a few leaves, but a good copy in the original printed wrappers, slightly dust-soiled.First edition. The majority of this collection of poems was written between 1909 and 1915, and can be seen, according to Bely, as 'a transition from the gloomy despair of The Urn [1909] to the consciousness of The Star [not published until 1922]; awakening from the unconsciousness of the grave to vital life, Life itself sounds like a fairy tale'.Kilgour 185; Tarasenkov p. 53. Language: Russian.

Two vols, 8vo, pp. 214, 238, some light browning; uncut in the original printed wrappers, browned, minor wear to spines.First edition of Bely's Notes of an eccentric, a thinly veiled autobiographical memoir or 'diary in story form'. The book describes a journey which Bely himself undertook in 1916, from Dornach in Switzerland, through France, England, Norway and Sweden, to Russia, where the narrator has been summoned for military service. Bely was always ambivalent about whether it should be considered as a work of fiction or autobiography. Language: Russian.