Andrei Bely\'s 1913 masterwork Petersburg is widely regarded as the most important Russian novel of the twentieth century.
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Few artistic works created before the First World War encapsulate and articulate the sensibility, ideas, phobias, and aspirations of Russian and transnational modernism as comprehensively.
Vladimir Nabokov ranked it with James Joyce\'s Ulysses , Franz Kafka\'s Metamorphosis , and Marcel Proust\'s In Search of Lost Time .
Andrei Bely\'s 1913 masterwork Petersburg is widely regarded as the most important Russian novel of the twentieth century