Little devil

To the attention of readers is offered one of the most famous works of the largest representative of the Russian symbolism of Fyodor Sologuba - the novel "small demon". Published in 1907, the novel after the life of the author was repeatedly reprinted and brought him all-Russian glory. And not only to readers of the beginning of the last century, but also to readers the currently drawn by the author: "No, my cute contemporaries, this is about you I wrote my novel ... about you. This romance mirror made skillfully. I grinded him for a long time, working on him hard. Smooth surface of my mirror, and its composition. Repeatedly measured and carefully tested, it has no curvature. Ugly and beautifully reflect in it equally accurately.
Small demon "remains" satire", a poisonous ball, this is a magical mirror, implancing disadvantages, anyway, what kind of people, all or almost everyone, but implanting. <...> Strange, new, even without thought, the feeling for the front suddenly moved in me. <...> Before his misfortune, all the horrors, so diligently thrown by Leonid Andreyev, are simply flavored. <...> We need to justify us "tears of tortured child", because you need to know: for what? why? why? But it is also necessary, I urge me to justify me and every drooling tear of Ponerov, each shuddering from the unhappiness ... "(3.Gippius)