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ISBN: 9780141392936
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2013
Publisher: Penguin UK
Pages: 352
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'He wanted to do something to her, be it pleasant or painful, tender or shameful - but what? Should he kiss her feet or beat her long and hard with supple birch twigs?' Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery, 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. Translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Pamela Davidson
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ISBN: 9780141392936
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2013
Publisher: Penguin UK
Pages: 352
Description:
'He wanted to do something to her, be it pleasant or painful, tender or shameful - but what? Should he kiss her feet or beat her long and hard with supple birch twigs?' Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery, 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. Translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Pamela Davidson
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