Research Catalog

Title

The little Devil / Alexei Remizov ; translated by Antonina W. Bouis.

Author

Remizov, Alekseĭ, 1877-1957

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

Bouis, Antonina W.

Description

xx, 307 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"In a dilapidated and isolated old house, something peculiar seems to happen whenever the town's bestial exterminator visits. On a seemingly bucolic country estate, the head of the household is a living corpse obsessed with other corpses. An adolescent boy who passes his days in private dream worlds experiences a sexual awakening spurred by his family's scandalous tenant. In these and other stories, the modernist writer Alexei Remizov offers a panorama of Russian mythology, the supernatural, rural grotesques, and profound religious faith in fiery revolutionary settings. Alexei Remizov was one of the greatest writers of the Russian symbolist movement of the early twentieth century. In the thirteen stories collected in this volume, Remizov's exceptional stylistic achievements are on full display. Equally drawing on rural colloquial speech, the language of Russian fairy tales, and the customs of the Old Believers and Russian Orthodoxy, they transport the reader into a mysterious world in between uncanny folktales and encroaching modernity. The Little Devil and Other Stories includes works from across Remizov's career encompassing his thematic preoccupations and stylistic experimentation. Antonina W. Bouis's translation captures Remizov's many registers to offer English-language readers a sampling of a remarkable Russian writer"--

Series Statement

Russian library

Uniform Title

• Short stories. Selections. English
• Russian library (Columbia University. Press)

Alternative Title

• Short stories.
• Little Devil and other stories

Subject

• Short stories, Russian > Translations into English
• Short stories, Russian

Genre/Form

• Translations.
• Short stories.

Note

• Translated from the Russian.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- 1. Bebka -- 2. Petushok the Cockerel -- 3. The Sacrifice -- 4. The Little Devil -- 5. The Profaner -- 6. Princess Mymra -- 7. Panna Maria -- 8. The Kind Guard -- 9. The Venerable Lis -- 10. Martin Zadeka -- 11. Savva Grudtsyn -- 12. About Pyotr and Fevronia of Murom -- 13. Grigory and Ksenia.

Call Number

JFD 21-646

ISBN

• 9780231183802
• 0231183801
• 9780231183819
• 023118381X
• 9780231545167 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020026893

OCLC

1159608036

Author

Remizov, Alekseĭ, 1877-1957, author.

Title

The little Devil / Alexei Remizov ; translated by Antonina W. Bouis.

Publisher

New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Russian library

Russian library (Columbia University. Press)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Bouis, Antonina W., translator.

Other Form:

Online version: Remizov, Alekseĭ, 1877-1957. The little devil and other stories New York : Columbia University Press, [2021] 9780231545167 (DLC) 2020026894

Research Call Number

JFD 21-646