Fedor Sologub

One of the most prominent representatives of the Russian symbolism is a writer, playwright, Publicist Fedor Sologub (Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov) is one of the most unusual and even mysterious figures of the Silver Age. The main theme of his creativity was thrust for death, a gloomy, a pessimistic look at the world around. Modern writer criticism was often called the Sologuba "Manyak", "sadist" or "psychopath", without noticing that all his texts were written in the search for consolation, other, excellent reality. The author of the book, a literary critic, Candidate of Philological Sciences Maria Saveliev, talking about the fate of the writer, shows that many years "death-comforter" has been for Sologub only in an abstract manner who distilted frightening thoughts from the writer, and they did not pump them at all. At one time, the main novel of Sologuba "small demon" was read, according to A. Blok, "by the whole reading Russia. Later, in Soviet years, the work of the writer turned out to be forgotten by a wide reader audience. The biography of Fedor Sologuba shows how fascinating and atypical for Russian literature his dark fairy tales