By Feodor Sologub An Authorised Translation by John Cournos and Richard Aldington () From the Translator's Preface: "The Little Demon" is a successful and almost imperceptible merging of comedy with tragedy. It is in fact a tragedy in which the comic forms an integral part and is not sandwiched in superficially merely to please the reader. · Sologub's anti-hero is one of the great comic monsters of twentieth-century fiction, subsequently lending his name to the brand of sado-masochism known as Peredonovism. The Little Demon () made an immediate star of its author who, refuting suggestions that the work was autobiographical, stated 'No, my dear contemporaries it is about you'. This grotesque mirror of a 5/5(1). Fyodor Sologub: Мелкий бес (The Petty Demon; later: The Little Demon) Though this book was completed by , Sologub did not publish it till , when it had considerable success. It paints a portrait of a small Russian town and there is virtually no character in it (and there are a lot of characters) who comes out unscathed from.
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By Feodor Sologub An Authorised Translation by John Cournos and Richard Aldington () From the Translator's Preface: "The Little Demon" is a successful and almost imperceptible merging of comedy with tragedy. It is in fact a tragedy in which the comic forms an integral part and is not sandwiched in superficially merely to please the reader. The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Little Demon, by Feodor Sologub This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. Sologub's anti-hero is one of the great comic monsters of twentieth-century fiction, subsequently lending his name to the brand of sado-masochism known as Peredonovism. The Little Demon () made an immediate star of its author who, refuting suggestions that the work was autobiographical, stated 'No, my dear contemporaries it is about you'. This grotesque mirror of a spiritually bankrupt society is arguably the finest Russian novel to have come out of the Symbolist movement.
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