The Little Devil and Other Stories / / Alexei Remizov.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Remizov, Alexei,
• MitwirkendeR: Bouis, Antonina W.,; Pyman, Avril,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Russian Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; No figures
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231545167; 9783110739077
• DOI: 10.7312/remi18380
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alexei Remizov.

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, his 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.