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Little Demon by Ronald Wilks and Fyodor Sologub (2013, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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Little Demon, Paperback by Sologub, Fyodor; Wilks, Ronald (TRN); Davidson, Pamela (INT), ISBN 0141392932, ISBN-13 9780141392936, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial school teacher 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, arson, torture and murder.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100141392932
ISBN-139780141392936
eBay Product ID (ePID)167737515
Product Key Features
Book TitleLittle Demon
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Classics
Publication Year2013
GenreFiction
AuthorRonald Wilks, Fyodor Sologub
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight9.2 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal891.733
SynopsisA blackly comic Russian classic about 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. This grotesque mirror of a spiritually bankrupt society is arguably the finest Russian novel to have come out of the Symbolist movement. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators., 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.
LC Classification NumberPG3470.T4
