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    <body><![CDATA[More of my not-so-sectret love affair with Russian lit. One of several gems I'd never have known about was it not for 'Russian Literature in English 142' in my freshman year of college, taught by Timothy Westphalen. Jolly good show, Tim.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Peredonov glared angrily at the salt&quot;<br/><br/>If you can get your hands on this one, read it!  One of the funniest novels ever written.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[being introduced to this story of paranoia is one of the main reasons im thankful for college]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Petty Demon is one of the funniest Russian novels ever written.  It is also the most decadent of the great Russian classics, replete with naked boys, sinuous girls, and a strange mixture of beauty and perversity. The main character, Peredonov, is as comical as he is disgusting&#151;at once a victim, a monster, a silly hypocrite, and a sadistic dullard.  <p>The plot moves from Peredonov's petty quest for a promotion to arson and murder via one of the most incredible and uproarious scandal scenes in world literature, the masquerade attended by the boy Sasha dressed as a beautiful geisha. The electricity of the relationship between androgynous, pubescent Sasha and the lovely Lyudmilla, with her exotic perfumes, caresses, and lubricious fantasies, never fails to hold the reader's attention.  <p>Even in its censored form, The Petty Demon is one of the most provocative and sexually open of the Russian literary cannon. Sologub removed many passages (fifteen percent of the text) that would have been unacceptable at the time of publication. These sections are restored in this edition, so that the reader can experience the novel as it was originally written.</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very funny and scintillating. . .]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When I first heard about this book, I couldn't wait to read it.  Turn-of-the-century Russian decadence by an under-appreciated Russian master?  Sign me up!  Seediness, grittiness, well-developed characters whose all-too-fabulous monomaniacal quests eventually fuel their own demises?  Hell yes!  But ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34273735">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[[In Italian translation.:]<br/><br/>This is a great romp into the darkness of man, the petty demon inside all of us. Because the title does not refer only to Peredònov as one might initially think, but to the stupid egoisms and fears that make us all petty paranoiacs.<br/>The book is hilarious w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60914242">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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