Kotik Letaev

By Andrei Bely

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081011626X
• ISBN13: 9780810116269
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.8"