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Fyodor Sologub (1863–1927)

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Sologub was a member of the symbolist movement, particularly in its early decadent phase. A schoolteacher and school official for many years, he began to publish in the 1890s. His first novel was Bad Dreams (1896), a depiction of a hero struggling against provincial surroundings. He attracted wide näytä lisää attention with his second novel, The Petty Demon (1907), in which another provincial town, brilliantly satirized, is the background for the brutish Peredonov's descent into paranoia. This novel, standing at the transition from realist to modernist fiction, has been widely translated and was for a long time the only Sologub work available to Soviet readers. The trilogy The Created Legend (1907--13) is an ambitious attempt to lay out in narrative form Sologub's highly integrated, quasi-mythological worldview: very controversial, it was not judged successful. Sologub also won recognition as a major Silver Age lyric poet, with verse notable for its economy and lyricism. Like much of his prose, it reflects Sologub's pessimistic, dualistic philosophy, which inverts traditional symbols of good and evil. However---moving in its simplicity, power, and authenticity---it is far more successful. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset

The Petty Demon (1905) — Tekijä — 502 kappaletta
The Created Legend (1914) 44 kappaletta
De prikkel des doods (1977) 20 kappaletta
Die wrede, zoete koorts (1977) 15 kappaletta
Bad Dreams (1896) 15 kappaletta
Queen Ortruda (1979) 9 kappaletta
To the Stars and Other Stories (Russian Library) (2022) — Tekijä — 8 kappaletta
Smoke and ashes (1979) 7 kappaletta
En liten människa : Noveller (2000) 6 kappaletta
The Old House and Other Tales (1916) 5 kappaletta
Le luce e le ombre. (2002) 5 kappaletta
Hide and Seek 5 kappaletta
Neizdannoe i nesobrannoe (1989) 2 kappaletta
Rasskazy : (1909 - 1921) (1992) 2 kappaletta
Turandina 2 kappaletta
Червяк 1 kappale
El trasgo 1 kappale
Sjene 1 kappale
Dvenadcatʹ dram (2000) 1 kappale
Kücük Seytan (2020) 1 kappale
Die Teufelsschaukel (2002) 1 kappale
Zhalo smerti (2018) 1 kappale
Melkij bes (2021) 1 kappale
Short Fiction (2022) 1 kappale

Associated Works

Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder (1989) — Avustaja — 329 kappaletta
A World of Great Stories (1947) 261 kappaletta
100 Creepy Little Creature Stories (1994) — Avustaja — 184 kappaletta
The Penguin Book of International Gay Writing (1995) — Avustaja — 177 kappaletta
Great Russian Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (2003) — Avustaja — 138 kappaletta
The Penguin book of Russian poetry (2015) — Avustaja — 92 kappaletta
Russian Poets (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (2009) — Avustaja — 65 kappaletta
Angels of Darkness: Tales of Troubled and Troubling Women (1995) — Avustaja — 27 kappaletta
A Treasury of Russian Life and Humor (1943) — Avustaja — 11 kappaletta
Black Magic Omnibus Volume 2 (1976) — Avustaja — 8 kappaletta
Noël russe (1997) — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta
Russland das große Lesebuch (2017) — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta
世界名作選〈1〉 (日本少国民文庫) (1998) — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta
10分で読める名作 六年生 (2007) — Avustaja — 2 kappaletta
The Mystery Gallery: The Eerie Room (2002) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
ロシア怪談集 (河出文庫) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
植物 (書物の王国) (1998) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
王侯 (書物の王国) (1998) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
ロシア短篇24 (現代の世界文学) (1987) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
近代ロシア詩集 — Avustaja — 1 kappale

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Encore un petit livre des éditions Tendance Négative, qui aime à mettre en scène ses textes et qui trouve avec ce choix un terrain de jeu parfait. Ici, un homme de petite taille se sent humilié par la taille impressionnante de sa femme. Voulant remédier à la situation, comme on pouvait s’y attendre, il ne fait que l’empirer.
Voici donc une belle satire du culte de l’apparence et du qu’en-dira-t-on, à laquelle s’ajoute une belle pique lancée à la course au profit. Ce n’est pas un livre optimiste, aucun des protagonistes n’est véritablement sympathique, mais c’est une petite nouvelle qui se lit avec plaisir, et la mise en page originale des éditions Tendance Négative, dont c’est la deuxième création que je lis, rend la lecture ludique, sans masquer le côté grinçant du texte.… (lisätietoja)
 
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raton-liseur | Jul 9, 2023 |
Its not your typical classic Russian Novel. And it most certainly is NOT Dostoevsky but that's okay. "The Petty Demon" is an entertaining and revealing romp through the realities of rural Russian life at the beginning of the 20th century. Sologub mixes humor, sensuality, and horror in what one reviewer called "the high water mark of Russian Decadent prose".

Thanks to numerous edits, censoring, and translations, the text can be a bit choppy at times but the fascinating description of the main character's mental decline keeps the reader engaged.

If you're up for a well-written, none-too-serious, and entertaining read, this is a book for you. Not to mention, you will learn about "nedotykomka".
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colligan | 4 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 16, 2023 |
Very enjoyable tale of provincial madness, marred only by a too-rigid adherence to Gogol's 'character goes around to visit other characters, hilarity ensues' mode. And that passes soon enough.
 
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stillatim | 4 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Oct 23, 2020 |
Sottoscrivo il commento di Razgul. Non avrei potuto aggiungere nulla. Se non che sarò eternamente grato a chi me lo ha fatto scoprire ;-)
 
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downisthenewup | 4 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Aug 17, 2017 |

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