Andrey Bely possible connection ad GR in Russian

[Max Nemtsov]

Colleagues, has anyone explored the possible connection of GR and Andrey 
Bely's Petersburg (1913) in true detail? I don't seem to be able to find 
anything, apart from Belorussian researcher Alexey Lalo's rather brief 
and (to my mind) superficial notice on satire and historicism in PN. The 
theme seems valid to me (again, I may be inventing bicycle, so to say), 
for I have recently re-read Petersburg, and was astonished to find many 
stylistic parallels, from the construction of dialogues to the use of 
silly songs, and a whole array of key symbols (including Baedeker, 
bombs, zeroes, streets and crowds, etc.). What seems to support the 
idea, is the fact that TRP's possible mentor Nabokov thought Petersburg 
to be the greatest Russian modernist novel of the 20th century, and an 
English translation (the first one?) by John Kournos had been available 
in 1959, so TRP might have read it. The connection with another Russian 
novel (We, by Zamyatin) had already been inspected, I know. So - please 
suggest if anything exists in the canon of Pynchon studies ))

On the informational note, you might be also interested to know that we 
(Anastasia Gryzunova and myself) have finally finished the Russian 
translation of GR, and the book is due some time this summer, published 
by Eksmo Publishers in Moscow. Among other people we are grateful to, 
there are all members of this list, which fact is duly noted in our 
acknowledgements )) Thank you guys, you've been of huge help to us, and 
the archives of the list were in many instances invaluable.

Mx