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Andrei Bely. Petersburg
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
NOTES
TRANSLATORS’ INTRODUCTION
II
III
NOTES
A NOTE ON TEXT AND TRANSLATION
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER THE FIRST. in which an account is given of a certain worthy person, his mental games, and the ephemerality of being
APOLLON APOLLONOVICH ABLEUKHOV
IN A WORD, HE WAS HEAD OF A GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION . .
NORTHEAST
HARROWING, HARROW
THE CARRIAGE FLEW INTO THE FOG
SQUARES, PARALLELEPIPEDS, CUBES
THE INHABITANTS OF THE ISLANDS STARTLE YOU
AND, CATCHING SIGHT, THEY DILATED, LIT UP, AND FLASHED . .
OF TWO SHABBILY DRESSED BUT SWEET GIRL STUDENTS . . .†
WHY DON’T YOU KEEP QUIET!
THE WRITING TABLE STOOD THERE
OUR ROLE
AND BESIDES, THE FACE GLISTENED
WHAT COSTUMER?
WET AUTUMN
APOLLON APOLLONOVICH RECALLED
COLD FINGERS†
THUS IT IS ALWAYS
YOU WILL NEVER EVER FORGET HIM!
CHAPTER THE SECOND. in which an account is given of a certain rendezvous, fraught with consequences
THE “DAILY CHRONICLE”
SOFIA PETROVNA LIKHUTINA†
SOFIA PETROVNA’S VISITORS
AN OFFICER: SERGEI SERGEYEVICH LIKHUTIN
THE TRIM, HANDSOME BEST MAN
THE RED BUFFOON
BASE, BASE, BASE!
AN UTTERLY SMOKE-SODDEN FACE
ARGUMENTS IN THE STREETS BECAME MORE FREQUENT
BELOVED DELVIG CALLS FOR ME
MEANWHILE, THE CONVERSATION HAD A CONTINUATION
THAT PERSON
STRIKE
ESCAPE
STYOPKA
CHAPTER THE THIRD. in which is described how Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov makes a fool of himself and his venture
A HOLIDAY†
OFF TO A MASS MEETING†
NOBLE, TRIM, AND PALE OF MIEN . .
COMTE, COMTE, COMTE!
TU-TUM: TUM, TUM!
SHADOWS
A MAD DOG YELPED
THE SENATOR’S SECOND SPACE
CHAPTER THE FOURTH. in which the line of the narrative is broken
THE SUMMER GARDEN†
MADAME FARNOIS
PETERSBURG VANISHED INTO THE NIGHT
THEIR DANCING SLIPPERS TAPPED
THE BALL
AS IF SOMEONE WERE LAMENTING
A WIZENED LITTLE FIGURE
POMPADOUR
THE FATEFUL
A SCANDALOUS UPROAR†
BUT WHAT IF . .
SHE HAD FORGOTTEN WHAT HAD BEEN
ALARM
THE LETTER
A COMPANION
DEMENTED
WHAT NEXT THEN?
A “SOLID CITIZEN”
CHAPTER THE FIFTH. in which an account is given of the little fellow with the wart by his nose and of the sardine tin with horrible contents
THE LITTLE FELLOW
HEY, A GLASS OF VODKA!
I DOOM IRREVOCABLY
THE GRIFFINS
RED AS FIRE
A BAD OMEN
BY THE CARD TABLE
PACKETS OF PENCILS
PÈPP PÈPPOVICH PÈPP
THE LAST JUDGMENT†
CHAPTER THE SIXTH. in which are related the events of a gray little day
THE THREAD OF HIS BEING ONCE AGAIN HAS BEEN FOUND
THE STAIRCASE
AND, TEARING LOOSE, HE BROKE INTO A RUN
THE STREET
A HELPING HAND
NEVSKY PROSPECT
DIONYSUS
REVELATION
THE CARYATID
GET AWAY, TOM!
FRONTAL BONES
NOT GOOD . .
ONCE MORE SAD AND MELANCHOLY
MATVEI MORZHOV
A DEAD RAY WAS FALLING THROUGH THE WINDOW
PETERSBURG
THE GARRET
WHY IT HAD HAPPENED . .
A GUEST
SCISSORS
CHAPTER THE SEVENTH. or, the events of a gray little day go on and on
MEASURELESS IMMENSITIES
CRANES†
I’M GOING MY OWN WAY . . . I’M NOT IN ANYONE’S WAY
THE CONVERSATION HAD A CONTINUATION
THE PLAN
THE GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION
HE CEASED STEERING
CHARCOAL TABLETS
I KNOW WHAT I’M DOING
YOU WILL BE LIKE A MADMAN
A REPTILE
PITCH DARKNESS†
THE “SOLID CITIZEN”
HE DID NOT EXPLAIN HIMSELF FULLY
A NICE LITTLE GAME OF SOLITAIRE
INEXPRESSIBLE MEANINGS
SWAN SONG
COCKROACHES
CHAPTER THE EIGHTH. and last
BUT FIRST OF ALL . .
IT SWAYED ABOVE A HEAP OF OBJECTS . . .†
THE LACKEYS WERE ASTONISHED
THERE WAS UTTER MEANINGLESSNESS
MAMMA
AND THE THUNDER OF A ROULADE
A WATERMELON IS A VEGETABLE . .
THE WATCH
EPILOGUE
NOTES
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER THE FIRST
CHAPTER THE SECOND
CHAPTER THE THIRD
CHAPTER THE FOURTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTH
CHAPTER THE EIGHTH
EPILOGUE
