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Vol. 111: Andrey Bely. Aaron’s Rod. Works on the Theory of Words, 1916–1927

  • ISSN: 0130-3627
  • ISBN: 0130-3627
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/0130-3627-2020-112-2
  • For Citation: Literary Heritage. Vol. 111: Andrey Bely. Aaron’s Rod. Works on the Theory of Words, 1916–1927 / compiled, prepared, introduced, textually reviewed, references and comments by E.V. Glukhovoy, D.O. Torshilova. –– Moscow: IWL RAS, 2018. –– 960 p. –– (Literary Heritage; vol. 111).

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  • Published: 2018
  • Abstract:

    Volume 111 of “Literary Heritage” brings together for the first time — and verifies against surviving manuscript materials — the philological works of Andrei Bely dating from the periods of the Revolution and the Civil War; specifically, it comprises materials from his articles and lectures pertaining to his “Theory of the Word”. Of undoubted value is the reconstruction of the lost book “On Rhythmic Gesture”; furthermore, the various stages of the creative process behind the book “Glossolalia” have been systematically reconstructed. The volume reproduces unique visual materials — diagrams and watercolor sketches by the writer —that originally accompanied the drafts of his articles and lecture courses. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the state of Bely’s “Theory of the Word” during the interval between “Symbolism” (1910) and his major works of the late 1920s and early 1930s (“Rhythm as Dialectic” and “The Craft of Gogol”).

    The edition is supplemented by extensive scholarly commentary, introductory and concluding essays, and an index of names.

    This book is intended for philologists, historians, cultural theorists, and philosophers, as well as for researchers, graduate students, undergraduates, and the general reading public.
  • Keywords: Andrei Bely, theory of the word, “Glossolalia”, “Aaron’s Rod”, “On Rhythmic Gesture”, poetics, textual criticism.
  • Author 1: Glukhova Elena V.
  • About the Author:

    Glukhova Elena V. — PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher at the Department of Russian Literature of the Late 19th — Early 20th Centuries, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya st., 25 a, bld. 1, 121069, Moscow, Russia.

    ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3847-0369

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  • Author 2: Torshilov Dmitry O.
  • About the Author:

    Torshilov Dmitry O. — PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Classical Philology, Institute of Oriental Cultures, Russian State University for the Humanities, Miusskaya sq., 6, 125993, Moscow, Russia.

    ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4501-5727

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References

Sources

1. Andrei Belyi i Ivanov-Razumnik. Perepiska [Correspondence], publ., intro., and comm. by A.V. Lavrov and J. Malmstad; text prep. by T.V. Pavlova, A.V. Lavrov, and J. Malmstad. St. Petersburg, Atheneum; Feniks Publ., 1998. 736 p. (In Russ.)

2. Belyi, A. Liniia zhizni: kniga-al'bom [The Line of Life: A Book-Album], ed. by M.L. Spivak; comp. by I.B. Delektorskaia, E.V. Nasedkina, and M.L. Spivak. Moscow, Gos. muzei A.S. Pushkina, 2010. 272 p. (In Russ.)

3. Literaturnoe nasledstvo. Vol. 105: Andrei Belyi. Avtobiograficheskie svody: Material k biografii. Rakurs k dnevniku. Registratsionnye zapisi. Dnevniki 1930-kh gg. [Andrei Bely. Autobiographical Summaries: Materials for a Biography. Perspective on the Diary. Registration Entries. Diaries of the 1930s], ed. by A.Iu. Galushkin and O.A. Korostelev; sci. ed. M.L. Spivak; comp. by A.V. Lavrov and J. Malmstad; text prep. by A.V. Lavrov, J. Malmstad, T.V. Pavlova, and M.L. Spivak; articles and comm. by A.V. Lavrov, J. Malmstad, and M.L. Spivak. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2016. 1120 p. (Literaturnoe nasledstvo; vol. 105). (In Russ.)

Research Works

1. Belyi, A. “Printsip ritma v dialekticheskom metode” [“The Principle of Rhythm in the Dialectical Method”], intro. and comm. by M.P. Odesskii and M.L. Spivak; text prep. by M.P. Odesskii, M.L. Spivak, and I.V. Volkova. Voprosy literatury, no. 2, 2010, pp. 246–285. (In Russ.)

2. Bogomolov, N.A. “Andrei Belyi i sovetskie pisateli: k istorii tvorcheskikh sviazei” [“Andrey Bely and Soviet Writers: On the History of Creative Relations”]. In Andrei Belyi. Problemy tvorchestva: stat'i, vospominaniia, publikatsii [Andrey Bely. Problems of Creative Work: Articles, Memoirs, Publications], comp. by S. Lesnevskii and A. Mikhailov, Moscow, Sovetskii pisatel' Publ., 1998, pp. 309–338. (In Russ.)

3. Gasparov, M.L. “Belyi-stikhoved i Belyi-stikhotvorets” [“Bely the Verse Scholar and Bely the Poet”]. In Andrei Belyi. Problemy tvorchestva: stat'i, vospominaniia, publikatsii [Andrey Bely. Problems of Creative Work: Articles, Memoirs, Publications], comp. by S. Lesnevskii and A. Mikhailov, Moscow, Sovetskii pisatel' Publ., 1988, pp. 444–460. (In Russ.)

4. Glukhova, E.V. “Aleksandr Blok v stikhovedcheskikh shtudiiakh Andreia Belogo: po materialam neopublikovannykh risunkov k ‘Glossolalii’” [“Alexander Blok in Andrei Bely’s Verse Studies: Based on Unpublished Drawings for Glossolalia”]. Shakhmatovskii vestnik, issue 9, Moscow, Nauka Publ., 2009, pp. 114–127. (In Russ.)

5. Ivanova, E.V. “Vol'naia filosofskaia assotsiatsiia. Trudy i dni” [“The Free Philosophical Association. Works and Days”]. In Ezhegodnik Rukopisnogo otdela Pushkinskogo Doma na 1992 g., ed. by T.S. Tsar'kova, St. Petersburg, Gumanitarnoe agentstvo “Akademicheskii proekt”, 1996, pp. 3–77. (In Russ.)

6. Kaidzava, Kh. “Ideia preryvistosti N.V. Bugaeva v rannikh teoreticheskikh rabotakh A. Belogo i P. Florenskogo” [“N.V. Bugaev’s Idea of Discreteness in the Early Theoretical Works of A. Bely and P. Florensky”]. In Moskva i “Moskva” Andreia Belogo: sb. st. [Moscow and “Moscow” by Andrei Bely: Collection of articles], comp. by M.L. Spivak and T.V. Tsiv'ian, Moscow, Izd. tsentr RGGU, 1999, pp. 29–44. (In Russ.)

7. Lavrov, A.V. “Andrei Belyi na podstupakh k Tolstomu” [“Andrei Bely on the Approach to Tolstoy”]. Russkaia literatura, no. 3, 2016, pp. 47–58. (In Russ.)

8. Lavrov, A.V. Andrei Belyi: razyskaniia i etiudy [Andrei Bely: Studies and Sketches]. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2007. 520 p. (In Russ.)

9. Lavrov, A.V. “Kniga Ellisa ‘Vigilemus!’ i raskol v ‘Musagete’” [“Ellis’s Book Vigilemus! and the Schism in Musaget”]. In Knigoizdatel'stvo “Musaget”: istoriia, mify, rezul'taty: issledovaniia i materialy [Musaget Book Publishing: History, Myths, Results: Research and Materials], comp. by A. Reznichenko, Moscow, Izd. tsentr RGGU, 2014, pp. 13–33. (In Russ.)

10. Lagutina, I.N. “V poiskakh utrachennoi istiny” [“In Search of the Lost Truth”]. In Belyi A. Sobranie sochinenii. Rudolf Shteiner i Gete v mirovozzrenii sovremennosti. Vospominaniia o Shteinere [Bely A. Collected works. Rudolf Steiner and Goethe in the worldview of modernity. Memories of Steiner], ed. by V.M. Piskunov; comp., comm., and afterword by I.N. Lagutina, Moscow, Respublika, 2000, pp. 686–698. (In Russ.)

11. Levchenko, M.A. Industrial'naia svirel': poeziia Proletkul'ta 1917–1921 gg. [Industrial Pipe: The Poetry of Proletkult, 1917–1921]. St. Petersburg, SPGUTD, 2007. 141 p. (In Russ.)

12. Silard, L. “Novaia matematika” i “filosofiia matematiki” v Istorii stanovleniia samosoznaiushchei dushi: aspekty aritmologii i kombinatorki” [“‘New Mathematics’ and the ‘Philosophy of Mathematics’ in The History of the Formation of the Self-Aware Soul: Aspects of Aritmology and Combinatorics”]. Russian Literature, vol. 70, no. 1–2, 2011, pp. 137–157. (In Russ.)

13. Spivak, M.L. “Solnechnyi grad” Andreia Belogo: s Kampanelloi i bez Kampanelly” [“Andrei Bely’s Sunny City: With Campanella and Without Campanella”]. In Utopiia i eskhatologiia v kul'ture russkogo modernizma [Utopia and Eschatology in the Culture of Russian Modernism], comp. and ed. by O.A. Bogdanova and A.G. Gacheva, Moscow, Indrik Publ., 2016, pp. 497–517. (Vechnye sIUzhety i obrazy; issue 3). (In Russ.)

14. Protokoly zasedanii Kruzhka eksperimental'noi estetiki pri “Musagete” (“Ritmicheskogo kruzhka”) [Minutes of the Meetings of the Circle of Experimental Aesthetics at Musaget (“Rhythmic Circle”)], text prep. and comm. by E.V. Glukhova. In Belyi A. Sobranie sochinenii, Moscow, Dmitrii Sechin, 2014, vol. XIV: Ritm kak dialektika i “Mednyi vsadnik”. Issledovanie [Rhythm as dialectic and the “Bronze Horseman”. A Study], comp., afterword, and comm. by D.O. Torshilov, pp. 230–251. (In Russ.)

15. Torshilov, D.O. “Ob istorii knigi” [“On the History of the Book”]. In Belyi A. Sobranie sochinenii, Moscow, Dmitrii Sechin, 2014, vol. XIV: Ritm kak dialektika i “Mednyi vsadnik”. Issledovanie [Rhythm as dialectic and the “Bronze Horseman”. A Study], comp., afterword, and comm. by D.O. Torshilov, pp. 291–334. (In Russ.)

16. Torshilov, D.O. “Andrei Belyi o printsipakh pravki svoikh sochinenii: ‘proizvedenie’ i ‘posledniaia volia avtora’” [“Andrei Bely on the Principles of Editing His Works: ‘the Work’ and ‘the Author’s Final Will’”]. Literaturnyi kalendar': knigi dnia, issue 1, 2011, pp. 68–97. (In Russ.)

17. Torshilov, D.O. “Andrei Belyi v 1917–1918 gg.: ‘priniatie revoliutsii’” [“Andrei Bely in 1917–1918: ‘Acceptance of the Revolution’”]. In Perelom 1917 goda: revoliutsionnyi kontekst russkoi literatury. Issledovaniia i materialy [The Turning Point of 1917: The Revolutionary Context of Russian Literature. Research and Materials], ed. by V.V. Polonskii; comp. by V.M. Vvedenskaia, E.V. Glukhova, and M.V. Kozmenko, Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2017, pp. 531–556. (In Russ.)

18. Torshilov, D.O. “Mirovaia voina i tsikl ‘Krizisov’ Andreia Belogo” [“The World War and Andrei Bely’s Crisis Cycle”]. In Russkaia publitsistika i periodika epokhi Pervoi mirovoi voiny: politika i poetika. Issledovaniia i materialy [Russian Journalism and Periodicals of the First World War: Politics and Poetics. Research and Materials], ed. by V.V. Polonskii, Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2013, pp. 209–223. (In Russ.)

19. Torshilov, D.O. “‘Pis'mo, napisannoe v serdtsakh’ v teorii slova Andreia Belogo i v stikhakh O. Mandel'shtama na ego smert'” [“‘A Letter Written in the Heart’ in Andrei Bely’s Theory of the Word and in O. Mandelstam’s Poems on His Death”]. In Zhivoe slovo: logos — golos — dvizhenie — zhest: sb. st. i materialov [], comp. and ed. by V.V. Feshchenko; ed. board: A.M. Ailamazian, V.V. Aristov, E.M. Kniazeva, and I.E. Sirotkina, Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2015, pp. 128–137. (In Russ.)

20. Torshilov, D.O. “Andrei Belyi o formalizme i poetike pantomimy v nachale 1920-ykh godov” [“Andrei Bely on Formalism and the Poetics of Pantomime in the Early 1920s”]. In Epokha ‘ostraneniia’. Russkii formalizm i sovremennoe gumanitarnoe znanie: kollektivnaia monografiia [The Era of “Ostranenie”. Russian Formalism and Modern Humanitarian Knowledge: A Collective Monograph], ed. by Ia. Levchenko and I. Pil'shchikov, Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2017, pp. 261–275. (Nauchnoe prilozhenie; issue 164). (In Russ.)

21. Hanzen-Leve, O.A. Russkii formalizm: metodologicheskaia rekonstruktsiia razvitiia na osnove printsipa ostraneniia [Russian Formalism: A Methodological Reconstruction of Its Development Based on the Principle of Ostranenie], trans. by A.S. Romashko. Moscow, Iazyki russkoi kul'tury, 2001. 669 p. (Studia philologica). (In Russ.)

22. Khvorost'ianova, E.V. “‘Eksperimental'naia estetika’ Andreia Belogo i problema germenevtiki stikha” [“Andrei Bely’s ‘Experimental Aesthetics’ and the Problem of Verse Hermeneutics”]. In Miry Andreia Belogo [Andrei Bely’s Worlds], ed. by K. Ichin and M. Spivak; comp. by I. Delektorskaia and E. Nasedkina, Belgrade; Moscow, Filol. f-t Belgradskogo un-ta, 2011, pp. 345–354. (In Russ.)

23. Malmstad J. Andrej Belyj at Home and Abroad (1917–1923): Materials for a Biography // Europa Orientalis. 1989. № 8. P. 425–480.