A History of Russian Symbolism

Avril Pyman

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Avril Pyman, University of Durham

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: January 2010
Print publication year:: 1994
Online ISBN:: 9780511519611
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519611

Subjects:: Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, European Studies

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This book is the first detailed history of the Russian Symbolist movement, from its initial hostile reception as a symptom of European decadence to its absorption into the mainstream of Russian literature, and eventual disintegration. It focuses on the two generations of writers whose work served as the seedbed of Existentialism in thought and of Modernism in prose and the performing arts, and reassesses their achievements in the light of modern research. At the centre of the study are the texts themselves, with prose quoted in English translation and poetry given in the original Russian with prose translations. There is a valuable bibliography of primary sources and an extensive chronological appendix. This book will fill a long-felt gap, and will be invaluable to students and teachers of Russian and comparative literature, Symbolism, Modernism, and pre-revolutionary Russian culture.

‘Avril Pyman’s authoritative book, [is] admirably thorough, well informed and scrupulously researched’.

Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Contents
pp ix-x

Preface
pp xi-xiv

Acknowledgements
pp xv-xvi

Note on the text and list of abbreviations
pp xvii-xviii

Prologue: decadence or rebirth? The European fin de siècle and the Russian precursors
pp 1-16

Part 1 - The art of the cell
pp 17-18

1 - Transitional writers (1892–1898). Volynsky and Severvnyi Vestnik, Minsky and the early Merezhkovsky
pp 19-37

2 - The new poetry in St Petersburg. Zinaida Hippius and Fedor Sologub (1893 onwards)
pp 38-55

3 - Russian Symbolism acquires a name. Bal′mont, Briusov, Dobroliubov and Konevskoi (1894–1900)
pp 56-90

Part 2 - Collective creation
pp 91-92

4 - The foundation of Mir Iskusstva and the role of the visual and performing arts. Benois, Diagilev, Filosofov and their group (1890–1904)
pp 93-122

5 - From Mir Iskusstva to Novyi Put'. The development of Merezhkovsky's prose and thought, Rozanov, Shestov (1898–1904)
pp 123-159

6 - Russian Symbolism comes of age. Skorpion, Severnye Tsvety and Vesy. Briusov as organiser and teacher (1900–4)
pp 160-180

Part 3 - Gleams of paradise
pp 181-182

7 - The turn of the century. The early poetry of the second generation of Russian Symbolists: Viacheslav Ivanov, Bely, Blok (1900–4)
pp 183-225

8 - The Sophia-myth and the theme of Apocalypse. The influence of Solov′ev and Nietzsche (1892 onwards)
pp 226-242

Part 4 - A glittering hell
pp 243-244

9 - The Russo-Japanese War and the 1905 Revolution. Symbolism, Mystic Anarchism and the beginning of division (1904–6)
pp 245-284

10 - The anthithesis. Zolotoe Runo and Oraea. Erotica in Skorpion, Vesy. Symbolist theatre. Polemics (1906–8)
pp 285-302

Part 5 - Our home from the beginning
pp 303-304

11 - ‘From the real to the more real’. Blok's ‘Russia and the Intelligentsia’. Ivanov's ‘A realibus ad realiora’. Bely's and Remizov's prose. (1907–10)
pp 305-322

12 - Russian Symbolism and Russian literature. Apollon and Annensky's summing-up. ‘The crisis of Symbolism’. Disintegration and reconciliation. (1909–10)
pp 323-336

Epilogue
pp 337-342

Chronology
pp 343-374

Notes
pp 375-431

Bibliography
pp 432-446

Index
pp 447-481

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