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The Little Demon
Fyodor Sologub
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R600
Discovery Miles 6 000
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The Little Demon (Paperback)
Fyodor Sologub; Translated by Ronald Wilks; Introduction by Pamela Davidson
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R343
R280
Discovery Miles 2 800
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A dark classic of Russia's silver age, this blackly funny novel
recounts 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. As he pursues the idea
of marrying to gain promotion, he descends into paranoia, sexual
perversion, arson, torture and murder. 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 (1907) 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. Fyodor Sologub was born in St Petersburg in
1863. His first two novels Bad Dreams (1896) and The Little Demon
(1907) were drawn from his own experiences as schoolmaster in a
remote provincial town. For many years Sologub could not find a
publisher for The Little Demon but when in 1907 the novel was at
last published - to immediate and resounding success - he was able
to leave his restricting career and devote himself to literature.
In 1921 his wife committed suicide and Sologub died a few years
later in 1927. Ronald Wilks studied Russian language and literature
at Trinity College,Cambridge, after training as a Naval
interpreter, and later Russian literature at London University. He
has translated many works from Russian for Penguin Classics,
including books by Gorky, Gogol, Pushkin, Tolstoy and Chekhov.
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The Shield (Paperback)
Maksim Gorky, Fyodor Sologub, Avrahm Yarmolinsky
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R189
Discovery Miles 1 890
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
The refusal of the Russian people to be either bribed or deceived
into hostility to the Jews is clearly enough demonstrated by the
feeling of affection on the part of most intelligent Jews towards
the Russian people The only exceptions are those Jews which come
from the Polish cities far within the Jewish Pale and do not know
the Russian people except by hearsay Unfortunately, this is a
considerable portion of the total of the Jews in Russia, and it is
from these cities and towns in the heart of the Pale that most of
our immigrants come But all the more educated Jews-and a very large
part are educated-all those who know Russia either by a travel or
through Russian literature and newspapers, feel a deep affection
for their country, for in spite of all, Russia belongs to them just
as much as it does to other Russians One of the editors of the
present volume, Fyodor Sologub, says: "Whenever I met Russian Jews
abroad, I always marvelled at the strangely tenacious love for
Russia which they preserve They speak of Russia with the same
longing and the same tenderness as the Russian emigrants; they are
equally eager to return and equally saddened, if the return is
impossible Wherefore should they love Russia, who is so harsh and
inhospitable toward them?"
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The Shield (Paperback)
Maxim Gorky, Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev, Fyodor Sologub
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R760
Discovery Miles 7 600
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
The original Shield was published in 1916 by the Russian Society
for the Study of Jewish Life under the joint editorship of three
eminent writers, Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, and Fyodor Sologub.
In the words of William English Walling, "this is not merely a book
about the Russian Jews. It is a marvellous revelation of the
Russian soul." Nowadays The Shield is as timely as ever. As Pavel
Milyukov, the founder of the Constitutional Democratic Party, says,
anti-Semitism of the new type "is the product of the constitutional
epoch. It is a response to the need for new means of influencing
the masses."
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The Shield (Paperback)
Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, Fyodor Sologub
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R767
Discovery Miles 7 670
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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