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Fyodor Sologub

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Fyodor Sologub


Born
in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
March 01, 1863

Died
December 05, 1927

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Fyodor Sologub (Russian: Фёдор Сологуб, born Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, Russian: Фёдор Кузьмич Тетерников; 1 March 1863 – 5 December 1927) was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic elements characteristic of European fin de siècle literature and philosophy into Russian prose.

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“Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.”
Sologub Fedor a

“И на этот раз Передонов, не долго думая, сочинил письмо к княгине. Он писал:
"Я люблю вас, потому что вы — холодная и далекая. Варвара потеет, с нею жарко спать, несет, как из печки. Я хочу иметь любовницу холодную и далекую. Приезжайте и соответствуйте".”
Fyodor Sologub, The Petty Demon: The Russian Symbolist Classic

“Не врёт надо сказать, - ошибается. Только маленькие врут, врозлые изволят ошибаться.”
Fedor Sologub

Polls

October 2015 New School Classics Group Read

1934, Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers, 209 pages
 
  26 votes, 19.3%

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages
 
  24 votes, 17.8%

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  16 votes, 11.9%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  9 votes, 6.7%

 
  9 votes, 6.7%

 
  9 votes, 6.7%

1958, Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, 220 pages
 
  8 votes, 5.9%

1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 432 pages
 
  7 votes, 5.2%

1971, Maurice by E.M. Forster, 256 pages
 
  6 votes, 4.4%

1939, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 243 pages
 
  5 votes, 3.7%

1997, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, 449 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

 
  3 votes, 2.2%

1972, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, 165 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

 
  3 votes, 2.2%

 
  2 votes, 1.5%

1963, Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, 564 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.7%

1905, The Petty Demon by Fyodor Sologub, 352 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.7%

1997, Out by Natsuo Kirino, 400 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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