Fyodor sologub biography definition

Entry updated 1 December Tagged: Author.

Pseudonym of Russian poet and author Fyodor Kuz'mich Teternikov (), who remains best known for his second novel, Melkii bes ( Voprosy zhizhi; ; trans John Cournos and Richard Aldington as The Little Demon; new trans Andrew Field as The Petty Demon); the title refers to a nearly supernatural apotheosis of numbing mediocrity, mercilessly depicted, which devours the schoolteacher protagonist, generating an intense physical Paranoia that manifests as a kind of ghost.

A defiant air of Decadence permeates Sologub's presentation of the tale, as it does his entire oeuvre, scandalizing the Russian literary establishment, for whom any hint of Modernism was condemned as immoral, unpatriotic and decadent.

Sologub's third novel, Tvorimaia legenda ( Shipovnik first and then Zemlya; ; part one only of cut text trans John Cournos as The Created Legend; complete trans Samuel D Cioran of full and restored text as The Created Lege