Books in the The Real Twentieth Century series

Celebrating the one-hundredth anniversary of Andrey Bely's Petersburg, this volume offers a cross-section of essays that address the most pertinent aspects of his 1916 masterpiece. Considered by Vladimir Nabokov to be one of the twentieth century's four greatest masterpieces, Petersburg is the first novel in which the city is the hero.

Explores how Arkadi and Boris Strugatskii's cosmological explorations are among the most fundamental elements of their art. The book also examines how these explorations connect to their predecessors in the Russian literary tradition - particularly to the poetry of Pushkin.