Fyodor Sologub

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Fyodor Sologub (1913)

Fyodor Sologub (actually Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikow ; Russian Фёдор Сологуб , scientific. Transliteration Fedor Sologub ; born February 17 . Jul / 1. March  1863 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † 5. December 1927 in Leningrad ) was a Russian writer of the so-called decadent Symbolism .

Life

Sologub was a teacher in the province and in St. Petersburg for 25 years.

Sologub's poetry, committed to symbolism, is shaped by his almost pathologically gloomy, demonizing view of a world ruled by Satan , in which people are themselves the worst devils. This applies both to the formally strict, fantastic visions and evocations, but occasionally also politically committed poetry ( Der Flammenkreis , 1908) as well as to the stories, short stories and novels, which often connect the theme of demons with those of love and death ( The sting of death , 1904; Death according to the advertisements 1907; The grieving bride , 1908).

In 1904 Sologub published a collection of 39 fairy tales , which he followed a year later with a volume with “Political Fairy Tales”. In addition, the child's experience, especially as a state of anxiety, plays an important role for teachers who are familiar with the world of the child ( In der Menge , 1907). This includes his most important work, the novel The Little Demon (1907; German 1909), the central figure of which, a sadistic teacher at a provincial high school, is one of the most captivating creations linked to Nikolai Gogol , Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin , but also Edgar Allan Poe heard of the wickedly banal.

Sologub fell ill in 1925 and died after several months of suffering. He was buried in the Smolensk Cemetery in Leningrad.

Works

Novels:

  • The little demon (1907, German 1909)
  • A legend in the making, 3 vols. (1908–12; German 2 vols., 1913, ud T. Totenzauber)
  • Sweeter than Poison (1908; German 1922)

Stories:

  • Shadow (1896; German 1912)

Poetry collections:

  • Poems (1896)
  • Blue Sky (1921)

Drama:

  • Triumph of Death (1907)

Expenditure:

  • Ges. Works, 20 vols., Russian (1913ff.)

German translations:

  • Fairy tales (1908, 1948)
  • Fables and Fairy tale (1917)
  • Master novels (1960).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Adrian Wanner: Miniature Worlds - Russian prose poems from Turgenev to Charms; Chapter: Short biographies and notes (bilingual anthology) . Pano Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-907576-73-X , p. 202 f .

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SURNAME Sologub, Fyodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Teternikow, Fyodor Kuzmich (maiden name); Сологуб, Фёдор (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1927
Place of death Leningrad