Kotik Letaev
One of the most important works of twentieth-century Russian prose, Kotik Letaev, the great symbolist novel of childhood, depicts the emergence of consciousness and its development into self-consciousness in a Russian boy growing up among the Moscow intelligentsia in the 1800s.
Kotik's experience is based on elements from Bely's own early childhood, but on a larger level his experience represents the stages of human history, the history of philosophy, and childhood language development. The story, seen through the eyes of a child from the age of three to five years, is told in complex, poetically developed adult language, rich in imagery and musical sound effects.
- Author
- Andrei Bely, Gerald J. Janecek
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 268
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780810116269
- Genres
- russia, fiction
- Release date
- 1999
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