L'antéchrist

by Dimitri Merejkovski

L'Antéchrist est un roman de la passion dévorante. Merejkovski y met en scène la rivalité entre l'extravagant Pierre le Grand et l'exalté et mystique Alexis, ce fils qui doit lui succéder, mais qu'il ne comprends guère.

664 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2008

About the author

Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky was a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic. A seminal figure of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, regarded as a co-founder of the Symbolist movement, Merezhkovsky – with his poet wife Zinaida Gippius – was twice forced into political exile. During his second exile (1918–1941) he continued publishing successful novels and gained recognition as a critic of Soviet Union. Known both as a self-styled religious prophet with his own slant on apocalyptic Christianity, and as the author of philosophical historical novels which combined fervent idealism with literary innovation, Merezhkovsky was a nine times nominee for the Nobel Prize in literature, which he came closest to winning in 1933.