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Which Symbolist poet and novelist, author of the monumental novel 'Petersburg', is considered by Nabokov to be one of the four greatest prose writers of the 20th century alongside Joyce, Kafka, and Proust?

Answer: Andrei Bely — Andrei Bely's 'Petersburg' (1913, revised 1922) uses a radically experimental prose style to depict the city as a phantasmagoric, geometric nightmare during the 1905 revolution.

Andrei Bely's 'Petersburg' (1913, revised 1922) uses a radically experimental prose style to depict the city as a phantasmagoric, geometric nightmare during the 1905 revolution.

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