The Petty Demon
by Fyodor Sologub
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Author: Fyodor SologubEditor: Murl Barker
Translator: S. D. Cioran
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-01-16
ISBN: 0882338080
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Ardis Publishers
Book Reviews of The Petty Demon
Book Review: Annotated Edition
Summary: 5 Stars
This edition includes an Introduction and Foreword by the translator, various Forewards by the author, a section containing the textual variants of passages that were removed from the original published editions, and an appendix of 8 critical articles about the book.
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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 giirls, and a strange mixture of beauty and perversity. The main hero, Peredonov, is as comical as he is disgusting. He is at once a victim, a monster, a silly hypocrite, and a sadistic dullard.
The plot moves from Peredonov's petty quest for promotion to arson and murder via one of the most incredible and uproarious scandal scenes in world literature, the masquerade ball which the boy Sasha attends as a beautiful geisha. The electricity of the relationship between the androgynous, pubescent Sasha and the lovely Lyudmila, with her exoptic perfumes, caresses and lubricious fantasies, seldom fails to hold the reader's attention.
Even in its censored form, it is one of the most provacative and sexually open of Russian books. Sologub removed many pasages (15 percent of the text) which would have been unacceptable at the time of publication. In this edition these censored sections are appended, and are all keyed so that the reader can place them in the novel as it was originally written.
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