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The Little Demon

by Fyodor Sologub

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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'

First published: 2013 438 pages ISBN: 9780141392943
Category
Literature
Priority
Recommended
Author works
1
Language
eng
Subjects
Category: NovelsCategory: Russian LiteratureFiction, generalFiction, psychologicalMental illness -- FictionRussia -- FictionRussian fiction -- Translations into EnglishTeachers -- Fiction

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