Andrei Beley (born Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev) was born 26 October
1880. Beley was educated at Moscow University where he studied
science and philosophy, before turning his focus to literature. In
1904 he published his first collection of poems, Gold in Azure,
which was followed in 1909 by his first novel, The Silver Dove.
Beley's most famous novel, Petersburg, was pubilshed in 1916. His
work is considered to have heavily influenced several literary
schools, most notably Symbolism, and his impact on Russian writing
has been compared to that of James Joyce on the English speaking
world.
Adam Thirlwell (b.1978) studied English at New College, Oxford, and
was subsequently elected as a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
in 1999. In 2003 his first novel, Politics, won the Betty Trask
Award, and Miss Herbert, published in 2007, won the Somerset
Maugham Award. Thirlwell's third novel, The Escape, was published
in September 2009.
The most important, most influential and most perfectly realized
Russian novel written in the twientieth century.
*The New York Times Book Review*
The one novel that sums up the whole of Russia.
*Anthony Burgess*
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