The Petty Demon
14 hrs. 13 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Fyodor Sologub
Author
Fyodor Sologub
Narrator
Mikhail Roslyakov
Narrator
Mikhail Roslyakov
Description
MediaBook Studio presents an audiobook of the famous Russian and Soviet poet, writer, playwright, publicist, and translator Fyodor Kuzmich Sologub. A яркий representative of the “Silver Age,” the decadent trend in Russian literature, and Russian symbolism. Fyodor Sologub’s works have been adapted into films many times, and the poet’s verses have repeatedly served as the foundation for musical compositions by such great composers as Sergey Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov, and Tatyana Georgievna Smirnova. Streets in cities are named after Fyodor Sologub.
Published in 1907, the novel “The Little Demon” achieved enormous success with readers and brought Fyodor Sologub all-Russian fame. Once sharply debated, the work hasn’t lost its relevance to this day. The vulgarity and pettiness of the “loyal subordinate” pedant Peredonov, the refined depravity of Rutilova’s “Lyudmilochka,” the weak-heartedness and inner readiness for debauchery of Sasha Pylnikov— and behind all this, a palpable presence of some evil force, impish creatures like Sologub’s nedotykomka… Isn’t all this familiar to us even now? And not only to readers of the early last century, but to the author’s present-day compatriots as well: “No, my dear contemporaries, it is about you that I wrote my novel… About you. This novel is a mirror made skillfully. I polished it for a long time, working at it diligently. The surface of my mirror is smooth, and its composition is pure. Measured many times and carefully checked, it has no curvature. The ugly and the beautiful are reflected in it equally precisely.”
Published in 1907, the novel “The Little Demon” achieved enormous success with readers and brought Fyodor Sologub all-Russian fame. Once sharply debated, the work hasn’t lost its relevance to this day. The vulgarity and pettiness of the “loyal subordinate” pedant Peredonov, the refined depravity of Rutilova’s “Lyudmilochka,” the weak-heartedness and inner readiness for debauchery of Sasha Pylnikov— and behind all this, a palpable presence of some evil force, impish creatures like Sologub’s nedotykomka… Isn’t all this familiar to us even now? And not only to readers of the early last century, but to the author’s present-day compatriots as well: “No, my dear contemporaries, it is about you that I wrote my novel… About you. This novel is a mirror made skillfully. I polished it for a long time, working at it diligently. The surface of my mirror is smooth, and its composition is pure. Measured many times and carefully checked, it has no curvature. The ugly and the beautiful are reflected in it equally precisely.”
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