Andrey BelyNo figure in turn of the century Russia, John Malmstad asserts, better epitomizes the paradoxes of that era than Andrey Bely (18801934). Eulogized by Boris Pasternak as "the most remarkable writer of our age" and now widely regarded as the seminal figure in Russian modernism and as one of the major writers of this century, Bely subjected the received standards of truth and value in literature to a penetrating and radical critique. After a long period