In a dilapidated and isolated old house, something peculiar seems
to happen whenever the town's bestial exterminator visits. On a
seemingly bucolic country estate, the head of the household is a
living corpse obsessed with other corpses. An adolescent boy who
passes his days in private dream worlds experiences a sexual
awakening spurred by his family's scandalous tenant. In these and
other stories, the modernist writer Alexei Remizov offers a
panorama of Russian mythology, the supernatural, rural grotesques,
and profound religious faith in fiery revolutionary settings.
Alexei Remizov was one of the greatest writers of the Russian
symbolist movement of the early twentieth century. In the thirteen
stories collected in this volume, his exceptional stylistic
achievements are on full display. Equally drawing on rural
colloquial speech, the language of Russian fairy tales, and the
customs of the Old Believers and Russian Orthodoxy, they transport
the reader into a mysterious world in between uncanny folktales and
encroaching modernity. The Little Devil and Other Stories includes
works from across Remizov's career, encompassing his thematic
preoccupations and stylistic experimentation. Antonina W. Bouis's
translation captures Remizov's many registers to offer
English-language readers a sampling of a remarkable Russian writer.
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