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Vol. 112: Andrey Bely. History of the Formation of a Self-Conscious Soul: in 2 books. Book 2

  • ISSN: 0130-3627
  • ISBN: 978-5-9208-0626-0
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/0130-3627-2020-112-2
  • For Citation: Literary Heritage. Vol. 112: Andrey Bely. History of the Formation of a Self-Conscious Soul: in 2 books. Book 2 / comp., ed. and with an introd. by M.P. Odessky, M.L. Spivak, H. Stahl; text prep. and with comm. by M.P. Odessky, M.L. Spivak, H. Stahl, with the participation of the team of authors. –– Moscow: IWL RAS, 2020. –– 800 р. –– (Literary Heritage; vol. 112).

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  • Published: 2020
  • Abstract:

    Volume 112 of “Literary Heritage” contains Andrey Bely’s fundamental two-volume treatise “History of the Formation of a Self-Conscious Soul” (1926–1931), the main, summary work of his life, published in its entirety on the basis of the author’s autographs for the first time. It presents the symbolist writer as an original philosopher, an outstanding historian and cultural critic. In it Bely explores the laws of human development, starting with the appearance of Christianity and ending with the 20th century, the era of symbolism and anthroposophy.

    The unique set of related materials is published for the first time: the draft of the treatise,

    fragments of the first edition, explanatory notes by Andrey Bely himself and his widow K.N. Bugayeva. For the first time, drawings, diagrams and accompanying posters are reproduced

    that clarify the author’s idea of “History of the Formation of a Self-Conscious Soul.”

    The publication is provided with essential detailed scholarly commentary, an introduction and afterword, indexes of names and illustrations.

    The book is intended for philologists, historians, philosophers; for researchers, postgraduates, students and a wide range of readers interested in the history of world culture and civilization.
  • Keywords: Andrei Bely, anthroposophy, symbolism, Rudolf Steiner, cultural history, textology.
  • Author 1: Odesskiy Mikhail P. 
  • About the Author:

    Odesskiy Mikhail P.  — DSc in Philology, Professor, Chair of Literary Criticism Department, Russian State University for Humanities, Miusskaya sq., 6, 125993, Moscow, Russia.

    ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2503-8078

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  • Author 2: Spivak Monika L. 
  • About the Author:

    Spivak Monika L. — DSc in Philology, Head of the “Literary Heritage” Department, А.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/0000-0001-5308-9780

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  • Author 3: Stahl Henrieke
  • About the Author:

    Stahl Henrieke — DSc in Slavistics, Professor, Morbach, Germany.

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