Christened Chinaman

Published in Moscow in 1927, Belyj's autobiographical novel describes family life and Moscow academic society at the turn of the last century, attempting to capture the memory and imagination of a child in the sustained rhythmic prose of the adult Symbolist poet and theoretician. In The Christened Chinaman Belyj ultimately reconciles himself with the figure of "father" that had so haunted his earlier novels, The Silver Dove and Petersburg. In Professor Beyer's translation accuracy and fidelity to the original capture that complexity and make the special magic of Belyj's ornamental prose accessible to a new audience of English readers.Bely, Andrei is the author of 'Christened Chinaman' with ISBN 9781557790422 and ISBN 1557790426.