One hundred years of change in Andrey Bely's image: Russian criticism of Bely as a symbolist literary critic

Abstract

In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the Russian critical discourse on the symbolist critic Bely in the last hundred years and to show the changes in this image, the critic Bely is judged in three stages in terms of the multiple relationships between Bely's literary criticism and his own literary creation, Russian symbolist literature, Russian literature and even Russian literary criticism, and finally to construct a collection of critical Bely's images covering different times, perspectives and fields, in which the image goes through the process of going from invisibility to incipient and then to complete presentation. The Russian criticism of Bely has been controversial in different eras, but his insistence on a combination of tradition and innovation and his active search for originality have made him a highly regarded critic. This review of the changing image of Bely deepens the understanding of Bely and Russian symbolism and is a useful reference for the study of Bely's literary criticism.