For 10 points, name this Symbolist masterpiece set in the title city in 1905, written by Andrei Bely.
This novel's protagonist had a childhood vision of an elastic ball turning into a round fat man who would recite "Pepp... Pepp" before exploding. Another character makes a pun about how anyone who grew up on a farm must have had a "harrowing" experience. This novel's section "Squares, Parallelopipeds, Cubes" sees a major character appreciating the rectilinear streets of the city while driving in a carriage. One character in this book is found next to the body of the man, who he had murdered the previous night with a pair of scissors and mounted. That character kills the double agent Lippanchenko, shrieks in a falsetto whenever he sees a mouse, and has a woman's neck. The character Dudkin appears in this novel in which Apollon Ableukhov is killed by a time bomb in a sardine can by his son. In this novel Nikolai Apollonovich has ears that are large and greenish and is followed by the hooves of an equestrian statue. For 10 points, name this Symbolist masterpiece set in the title city in 1905, written by Andrei Bely.
This novel's protagonist had a childhood vision of an elastic ball turning into a round fat man who would recite "Pepp... Pepp" before exploding.
St. {Petersburg}