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The Petty Demon (Russian: Мелкий бес, romanized: Melkiy bes), also translated as The Little Demon, is a Symbolist novel by Russian writer Fyodor Sologub. It was published in a stand-alone edition in 1907 and quickly became popular, having ten printings during the author's lifetime.
The Petty Demon. Fyodor Sologub, Murl Barker (Editor) 4.02. 2,605 ratings225 reviews. The Petty Demon is one of the funniest Russian novels. It is also the most decadent of the great Russian classics, replete with naked boys, sinuous girls, and a strange mixture of beauty and perversity.
The Petty Demon. Fyodor Sologub ( Russian: Фёдор Сологу́б, born Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, Russian: Фёдор Кузьми́ч Тете́рников, also known as Theodor Sologub; 1 March [ O.S. 17 February] 1863 – 5 December 1927) was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, translator, playwright and essayist.
The petty demon. by. Sologub, Fyodor, 1863-1927. Publication date. 1962. Publisher. New York : Random House. Collection. trent_university; internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled.
The women eager to marry, the pompous town officials, the relatives trying to marry off their female relatives, the drinking and debauchery, all are mocked by Sologub. He later claimed that he himself – he had been a teacher and, later, a school inspector – was not the model for Peredonov.
The Petty Demon is one of the funniest Russian novels. It is also the most decadent of the great Russian classics, replete with naked boys, sinuous girls, and a strange mixture of beauty...
By profession a schoolteacher and a poet, one of the earliest Russian symbolists, his masterpiece of fiction is the novel The Petty Demon. Sologub remained in the Soviet Union after the...
