'No, my dear contemporaries, it is of you that I have written my novel about the little demon ... about you.' Thus Sologub emphatically refuted suggestions that The Little Demon (1907) contained elements of autobiography. This is perhaps unsurprising, given that his schoolmaster hero is one of the great comic monsters of twentieth-century fiction. Peredonov is exercised first by the idea of marrying to gain promotion, later by arson, torture and murder. His descent into paranoia and sexual perversion (he subsequently lent his name to the brand of sado-masochism known in Russia as Peredonovism) mirrors the obsessions of a petty provincial society, tyrannized by triviality and senseless bureaucracy. The Little Demon is a formidable technical achievement in its portrayal of a spiritual wasteland. It brought Sologub immediate and lasting fame, and is arguably the finest Russian novel to have come out of the Symbolist movement.

The Little Demon (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Sologub, Fyodor

Literary

Penguin Classics

A blackly comic Russian classic about a schoolteacher’s descent into sadism, arson, and murder Mad, lascivious, sadistic, and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery and degradation, yet to everyone else he is an upstanding member of society. This grotesque mirror of a spiritually bankrupt society is arguably the finest Russian novel to have come out of the Symbolist movement. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Little Demon

Dramas & Plays

To the Stars and Other Stories (Russian Library)

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

A boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in “becoming” a dog and howling at the moon. A club of young girls masquerade as the grieving fiancées of strange men. This book brings together these and other remarkable short stories by the Russian Symbolist Fyodor Sologub that explore the lengths to which people will go to transcend the mundane.\nRenowned as one of late imperial Russia’s finest stylists, Sologub bridges the great nineteenth-century novel and the fin-de-siècle avant-garde. He stands out for his masterful command of both realist and fantastic storytelling; his play with language evinces a belief in its capacity to access other worlds and other levels of meaning. Many of Sologub’s stories are set among children whose alienation from the adult world has lent them imagination and curiosity, enabling them to create an alternative reality. At the same time, he bluntly examines the sordid realities of late imperial Russian society and frankly presents sometimes unconventional sexuality. The book also features a selection of Sologub’s “little fairy tales,” ambiguous parables couched in childlike language whose ingenuity anticipates the miniatures and “incidents” of Daniil Kharms. Susanne Fusso’s elegant translation offers these artful tales to an English-speaking audience.

Petty Demon

Classics

Indiana University Press

The electricity of the relationship between the androgynous, pubescent Sasha and the lovely Lyudmilla, with her exotic perfumes, caresses and lubricious fantasies, seldom fails to hold the reader’s attention. The Petty Demon is one of the funniest Russian novels. It is also the most decadent of the great Russian classics, replete with naked boys, sinuous girls, and a strange mixture of beauty and perversity. The main hero, Peredonov, is as comical as he is disgusting. He is at once a victim, a monster, a silly hypocrite, and a sadistic dullard. The plot moves from Peredonov’s petty quest for a promotion to arson and murder via one of the most incredible and uproarious scandal scenes in world literature, the masquerade ball, which the boy Sasha attends as a beautiful geisha. Even in its censored form, it is one of the most provocative and sexually open of Russian books. Sologub removed many passages which would have been unacceptable at the time of publication. In this edition these censored sections are appended, and all are keyed so that the reader can place them in the novel as it was written.

Indiana University

Interlink Publishing+group Inc

A collection of eleven stories by the Russian Symbolist author reprinted from the authorised English translation of 1916.

The Old House and Other Tales (New Adelphi Library, V. 44.) (English and Russian Edition)

Teternikov, Fedor

Greenwood Pub Group

BRAND NEW FIRST EDITION hardcover 1978 Ardis, clean text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library slight shelfwear / storage-wear; jacket poor, included as a courtesy; WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201601711 Fyodor Sologub (Russian: Фёдор Сологу́б, born Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, Russian: Фёдор Кузьми́ч Тете́рников, also known as Theodor Sologub; March 1 [O.S. February 17] 1863 - December 5, 1927) was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic elements characteristic of European fin de siècle literature and philosophy into Russian prose. "A great story with a large cast of fascinating characters. The dream sequences are what I find the most fun to read &amp; the reason I love Sologub so much. It did seem to slow down in the middle but the last 100 pages are amazing." We recommend selecting Priority Mail wherever available. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil or Italy.)

Bad Dreams

ARDIS

The petty demon

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The Little Demon (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

The Little Demon

To the Stars and Other Stories (Russian Library)

To the Stars and Other Stories (Russian Library)

Petty Demon

Petty Demon

Petty Demon

The Old House and Other Tales (New Adelphi Library, V. 44.) (English and Russian Edition)

Bad Dreams

The petty demon