Masks

Russian writer, poet and philosopher Andrei Bely (1880-1934) - one of the founders of symbolism in Russia as an aesthetic worldview - admitted: “I write“ May ”, I studied: verbal ornamentation by Gogol, the rhythm - with Nietzsche, dramatic tricks - with Shakespeare. , gesture - at the pantomime, the music that was listened to by the inner ear - Schumann, the truth I studied at the nature of my impressions from Moscow in 1916, which struck me with a picture of collapse, dance over the abyss. According to the author’s plan, this novel is a continuation of the novel “Moscow”, but can be perceived as a separate work, because the essence of this book is not in the plot, but in contrasting the descriptions of Moscow by pre -revolutionary and another - shocked and concerned with revolutionary events