One of the greatest and original works of the Silver Age. A novel in which the traditions of the psychological realism of Dostoevsky and satirical grotesque Saltykov-Shchedrin are adjacent to the motives of surrealism and magical realism.
The small provincial town of the beginning of the 20th century is suffocating from boredom, philistinism and vulgarity. Nothing happens, but all the more clearly the feeling of threat. Something should happen-and something happens. Either the teacher of the literature of the parties slowly goes crazy, or in the town a genuine carnival of the demon escaped to the will of the demolition begins …
Author
Sologub Fedor Kuzmich
Publisher
AST, 2011
Series
Russian classics
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