Andrey Bely, one of the leading writers of the Russian Symbolist movement, was unusually well-informed about music, and shared that movement's general enthusiasm for Wagner. Indeed, in what is perhaps his most striking novel, St Petersburg, he attempted to develop prose as a form of expression on the basis of Wagner's musical techniques. Dr Steinberg is the first person to have written about the connection of word and music in Bely's novels. She begins by discussing the degree to which analogies between music and poetry or prose may be carried, and of the way Bely tried to eliminate the distinction between poetry and prose by experimenting with an array of musical devices. The second half of the book analyses specific devices such as verbal orchestration, dissonance, tonality, and counterpoint in relation to their use in particular novels: St Petersburg, Kotik Letaev, The Baptized Chinaman, Notes of a Crank, Moscow, and Masks. Like other volumes in the series, this book will...

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