Small demon. Sologub F.

The attention of readers is proposed one of the most famous works of the largest representative of Russian symbolism by Fedor Sologub - the novel “Minor Demon”. Published in 1907, the novel during the author’s life was repeatedly reprinted and brought him all -Russian glory. And not only to the readers of the beginning of the last century, but also the author addresses the current readers: “No, my lovely contemporaries, I wrote my novel about you... about you. This novel is a mirror made skillfully. I polished him for a long time, working on him diligently. The surface of my mirror is even, and its composition is clean. Repeatedly measured and carefully tested, it has no curvature. The ugly and beautiful reflect in it equally accurately. ”

“Small demon” remains “satire”, a poisonous ball; This is a magic mirror that denounces the shortcomings, all the same, what kind of people, all or almost everyone, but exposing. Strange, new, still without thought, the feeling of Predonov suddenly moved in me. Before his misfortune, all the horrors, so carefully piled by Leonid Andreev, are just turquoilles. We need to justify the “tears of the tortured child”, because we need to know: for what? Why? For what? But it is also necessary, it is strongly necessary for me to justify each slobbery tear of the foreman, every shudder of it from the under -paste... ”(wing hippius).