This book brings together remarkable short stories by the Russian Symbolist Fyodor Sologub that explore the lengths to which people will go to transcend the mundane. Renowned as one of late imperial Russiaâ s finest stylists, Sologub bridges the great nineteenth-century novel and the fin-de-sià cle avant-garde.
This book brings together remarkable short stories by the Russian Symbolist Fyodor Sologub that explore the lengths to which people will go to transcend the mundane. Renowned as one of late imperial Russiaâ s finest stylists, Sologub bridges the great nineteenth-century novel and the fin-de-sià cle avant-garde.
Fyodor Sologub (the pseudonym of Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, 1863-1927) was a major Russian Symbolist poet and prose writer. The son of a tailor and a maid, he began his career as a provincial high school teacher and attained literary fame in St. Petersburg at the turn of the twentieth century. He is best known for the novel The Petty Demon. Susanne Fusso is Marcus L. Taft Professor of Modern Languages and professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies at Wesleyan University. Her translations include Nikolai Gogol's The Nose and Other Stories (Columbia, 2020).
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Acknowledgments Introduction by Susanne Fusso Selected Works About Sologub in English Note on Transliteration and Translation Issues 1. To the Stars (1896) 2. Beauty (1899) 3. In Captivity (1905) 4. The Two Gotiks (1906) 5. The Youth Linus (1906) 6. In the Crowd (1907) 7. Death by Advertisement (1907) 8. The White Dog (1908) 9. The Saddened Fiancée (1908) 10. The Sixty-Seventh Day. A Novella (1908) 11. The Road to Damascus (1910) (written with Anastasia Chebotarevskaya) 12. The Kiss of the Unborn Child (1911) 13. The Lady in Shackles. A Legend of the White Nights (1912) 14. Little Fairy Tales (selection, 1898-1906) Notes Publication History of the Stories
Acknowledgments Introduction by Susanne Fusso Selected Works About Sologub in English Note on Transliteration and Translation Issues 1. To the Stars (1896) 2. Beauty (1899) 3. In Captivity (1905) 4. The Two Gotiks (1906) 5. The Youth Linus (1906) 6. In the Crowd (1907) 7. Death by Advertisement (1907) 8. The White Dog (1908) 9. The Saddened Fiancée (1908) 10. The Sixty-Seventh Day. A Novella (1908) 11. The Road to Damascus (1910) (written with Anastasia Chebotarevskaya) 12. The Kiss of the Unborn Child (1911) 13. The Lady in Shackles. A Legend of the White Nights (1912) 14. Little Fairy Tales (selection, 1898-1906) Notes Publication History of the Stories
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