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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 mov

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Sologub F Little Demon

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 25 July 2013
      ISBN-13 9780141392936
      978-0141392936
      ISBN-10 0141392932
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      Book Synopsis

      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 mov

      Trade Review
      A novel that reigns supreme - or anti-supreme, if one prefers - in the black arts game * Boston Globe *

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