Symbolism as a Worldview

Andrei Bely - a thinker and poet, one of the most unusual and distinctive writers of the Silver Age, "master and magician," creator of new artistic forms and prophet of a new era. Furthermore, an original researcher who laid the... foundations of modern poetry studies and a theorist of symbolism, the main poetic direction of the era that received the title "cultural renaissance" of the early 20th century. This era, which opened the world to many bright talents, was marked by an extraordinary rise in poetry and philosophy, as well as a special romantic perception of the world and a striving for "other worlds," beyond the visible, but at the same time it was permeated with a sense of impending historical catastrophes.The present collection features the most famous and significant philosophical-aesthetic and literary-critical works of Andrei Bely, gathered by the author in three books ("Symbolism," "Arabesques," "Green Meadow"), in which the ideological quests of one of the most astonishing eras in the history of Russian culture are reflected.