.webp?h=10 "Top Hat (black) - Traditional. Classy. Elegant.")
aweonao
!bookworms to discuss the first chapter of Andrei Bely's "Petersburg".
An neurodivergent old tsarist statesman (and a cuck) has a difficult relationship with his incel son but takes too long to realize his son's commie friends might be into something. Vivid descriptions of what St Petersburg looked like during the 1905 Revolution.
Next week discussion to cover chapter 2.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I've read thru the chapter and I'm being brought into it slowly. Joyce did something similar in Dubliners and Ulyssess by having the City of Dublin itself become a character in the story through the descriptions and imagery used in relation to our characters POV.
Nikolai is introduced as a
as so the City if Petersburg reflects and amplifies that angst and anxiety. Petersburg is dank, dark, convoluted and looming in the liminal space of Nikolai's perception of himself and his interfacing with the world around him.
Apollon is a
also 
!bookworms
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Apollon is paranoid and the Raznochintsy don't seem to be very bright.
Parallels have been drawn between this book and Ulysses, no wonder Vladimir Nabokov liked it so much.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Apollon noting that his image has been plastered on "yid magazines
" of blood red colour was pretty funny tho 
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context