A review by lisa_mc
The Petty Demon by Fyodor Sologub

3.0

I read this novel as the first book in a college course on "The Modern Russian Novel" (crikey, that semester had a lot of reading). It's very different from the traditional Pushkin/Tolstoy/Dostoevsky works of the 19th century but is fascinating in its own right. I have to say that 25 years on, I don't remember much of the plot, but I do remember it changing the way I think of and look at "Russian literature."