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Little Demon

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ISBN-10: 0141392932

ISBN-13: 9780141392936

Edition: 2013

Authors: Fyodor Sologub, Ronald Wilks, Pamela Davidson

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Publication date: 8/27/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.06" wide x 7.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Ronald Wilks has translated Chekhovs short stories, as well as the work of other Russian writers, for Penguin Classics.John Sutherland teaches English at University College, London and has edited several works for Penguin Classics.