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The Silver Dove, published four years before Bely's masterpiece Petersburg, is considered the first modern Russian novel. Breaking with Russian realism, and a pioneering Symbolist work, its vividly drawn characters, elemental landscapes, and rich style make it accessible to the Western reader.
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Grave, prestige, earnest and bleak.
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- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Andrey Bely
- First published
- 1922
- Pages
- 316
- Publisher
- Fink, Angel Books, Grove Press ; distributed by Random House
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780946162642
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