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Chargement... The Petty Demon (original 1907; édition 2009)par Fyodor Sologub, Murl Barker (Directeur de publication), S D Cioran (Traducteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreUn démon de petite envergure par Fyodor Sologub (Author) (1907)
  
 colligan | Feb 16, 2023 |    ) stillatim | Oct 23, 2020 | ) downisthenewup | Aug 17, 2017 | Its pretty much about a man trying to get into a higher station in life and being paranoid the whole way there. There is scandalous side story that, in my opinion, was the best part of the book. Which is why it only earned 3 stars. (  ) DeathsMistress | Jan 1, 2013 | The book is hilarious with some great visual humor which I think someone should capture in theatre. Maybe take a chapter or two or something, and make a little 3-act play. It gets more surreal as you turn the pages until that final shock which you knew was coming.... ( )1  donato | Apr 29, 2011 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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 Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)891.733Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction 1800–1917Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (3.78)
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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". (