A review by mmillerb
Petersburg by Andrei Bely

5.0

imperial tsarist russia’s hottest new club is: PETERSBURG! you may at first be attracted by its bartender’s newest concoction—a tangy bacilli-packed slurry called the neva—but at *this* Party of the people there’s everything and so much more: human myriapods, parallelepipeds, your long-lost mother, heterosexual ballroom dancing, a rope soaping station, your long-lost brother as bouncer wearing a glue-on pushkin beardpiece who makes you do mental multiplication problems where you carry the 1, streets, a specter of… the orient, that report on salt consumption in the netherlands you should’ve had on your boss’ desk by, like, yesterday, and a dashing young revolutionary with a [spoiler] in his [spoiler] who, dangerous as he may seem, you just can’t help but want to blow you out of the neva… ;)