The steppe horsemen had famously guarded the empire's frontiers, stampeded demonstrators in its cities, suppressed peasant revolts in the countryside and served as bodyguards to. The 'Russian' Civil Wars, This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth century.
Indeed, the reverberations of those decade-long wars echo to the present day - not despite, but because. Churchill's Crusade. Richard Petty Author : J. It was in that context that he elaborated his economic ideas, which consequently reflect the world of military-bureaucratic officialdom, neo-feudalism and colonialism he served.
This book shows that much of the theory and methodology in use within the economics discipline of today has its roots in the writings of Petty and his contemporaries, rather than in the supposedly universalistic and enlightened ideals of Adam Smith a century later. This book argues that exploring the historical roots of economic ideas and methods in this way is an essential aspect of assessing their appropriateness and analytical power today, and that this is more relevant than ever.
It will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in the history of economic thought, early modern economic history, development economics and economic geography. Popular Books. Now in his mid-sixties, still making records and still touring, Petty, known for his reclusive style, has shared with Warren Zanes his insights and arguments, his regrets and lasting ambitions, and the details of his life on and off the stage. This is a book for those who know and love the songs, from "American Girl" and "Refugee" to "Free Fallin'" and "Mary Jane's Last Dance," and for those who want to see the classic rock and roll era embodied in one man's remarkable story.
Dark and mysterious, Petty manages to come back, again and again, showing us what the music can do and where it can take us. The Petty Demon is one of the funniest Russian novels.
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 hero, Peredonov, is as comical as he is disgusting. He is at once a victim, a monster, a silly hypocrite, and a sadistic dullard. Even in its censored form, it is one of the most provocative and sexually open of Russian books.
Sologub removed many passages which would have been unacceptable at the time of publication. In this edition these censored sections are appended, and all are keyed so that the reader can place them in the novel as it was written. Author, Paul Zollo, conducted a series of in-depth discussions with Tom about his career, with special focus on his song writing. For the first time, serious thinkers explore the work of this towering genius of rock music.
The authors, all Petty fans, come from every philosophical viewpoint: classical, analytic, postmodernist, phenomenological, and Nietzschean. There is the legacy left to his main backing band, the Heartbreakers, but also bookended by Mudcrutch and his collaborations with his elders, such as Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash.
His insight into the human condition conveys a powerful philosophical anthropology with a metaphysics of tragedy, gravity, and levity. His political thinking is that of the artist, enlivened by Southern hostilities and Californian futilities, culminating in a personal ethic that puts duty to the fans first.
The dialectic of love and hate, abuse and recovery, poverty and power, triumph and loss provide the genuine objects of knowledge.
Petty lived his life the way he wrote and the way he played. It was grit, drive, and just enough finesse, to make things nice, where they need to be nice. On stage, he put the schau in Anschauung. Petty stood up to corporate assholes in a number of precedent-setting legal maneuvers and album concepts, risking his career and fortune, but never backing down.
He was the center of a musical community that endured over four decades. His ability to cultivate new generations of listeners while connecting himself backward to the heroes of his own youth have made him universally respected by the widest range of music fans. Along the way it portrays provincial pre-revolution life. No real attempt is given to flesh out any of these characters except for the mad Peredonov.
Peredonov is as crazy as Gogol's Chichikov but far less calculating probably because he is a provincial. In fact it is the whole thing of provinciality that bleeds through this book, like Turgenev's Fathers and Sons throughout the period when they arrive back at the family home.
Is there that great a difference in any country between provinciality now as there was then? Probably the differences were accentuated for Sologub. Now, we can travel easily to the capital. Then it was a matter of engineering an escape from the sheer monotony. And this is why Peredonov becomes obsessed with his putative inspectorate which leads him into marriage with the long term shack-up he's clearly been with for ages and everybody knows about but are willing to turn a blind eye.
And this in turn leads him on the steady slope to bad craziness. This book is a real gem - full of good quality writing. The introduction in the Penguin Classic edition, by Pamela Davidson, makes some excellent points and comparisons. Aug 26, Andrew added it Shelves: russian-fiction. Let's talk about decadence. This is one of the most abused adjectives in the English language. Well, let me tell you, Sologub has different ideas. Like dressing a schoolboy as a geisha and throwing him into a beauty contest for three sisters, or throwing your garbage across the walls of your house just because Let's talk about decadence.
Like dressing a schoolboy as a geisha and throwing him into a beauty contest for three sisters, or throwing your garbage across the walls of your house just because it vaguely amuses you when you're hammered.
Equal to anything Wilde, Mirbeau, or Huysmans were doing around the same time. Sep 11, Meri rated it it was amazing Shelves: russia , humor. One of the funniest novels ever written. View 2 comments. A great read. Once I got caught up in the story, it just pulled me along. Peredonov is totally insane, but it was such fun reading his rantings and also the things, real and imagined, perpetrated against him.
Available soon at Project Gutenberg via Free Literature. Jun 18, Eadweard rated it really liked it Shelves: russian , favorites-or-really-liked , fiction-read. I enjoyed Sologub's combination of realism and symbolism, the way he split the book between Sasha and Lyudmila and their sensual escapades, and Peredonov's descent into madness.
I also didn't expect it to be so funny. Recommended to Bettie by: Laura. Shelves: underratings , gutenberg-project , mental-health , lit-richer , cover-love , picaresque , amusing , classic , e-book , slavic. Description: A dark classic of Russia's silver age, this blackly funny novel recounts a schoolteacher's descent into sadism, arson and murder.
Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery and degradation, yet to everyone else he is an upstanding member of society.
As he pursues the idea of marrying to gain promotion, he descends into paranoia, sexual perversion, arson, torture and murder. Sologub's anti-hero is one of the great comic monsters of twentieth-century fiction, subsequently lending his name to the brand of sado-masochism known as Peredonovism. The Little Demon made an immediate star of its author who, refuting suggestions that the work was autobiographical, stated 'No, my dear contemporaries This grotesque mirror of a spiritually bankrupt society is arguably the finest Russian novel to have come out of the Symbolist movement.
A few stopped to talk under the old maples and lindens near the white stone walls, within the enclosure. All were in holiday dress and looked at one another cheerily. It appeared as if the inhabitants of this town lived peacefully and amicably—even happily. But it was only in appearance. Peredonov, a schoolmaster in the gymnasia, stood among his friends, and as he looked at them gravely out of his small, stealthy eyes, across the golden rims of his spectacles, he remarked: "Princess Volchanskaya herself made the promise to Vara.
This part from the description means I will get to this sooner rather than later: 'Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous'. Although it is stated that Peredonov is a school teacher, he conveys ugly traits synonymous with 'superfluous man' : Peredonov looked indifferent: he did not take any interest in other people's lives—he did not care for people and he never thought of them except as they might contribute to his own benefit and pleasure.
Sep 03, Connor rated it it was amazing. Glorious book. Madness, crossdressing, violence. Ive read reviews on here which describe it as "slavish adherence to realism", which seems like people haven't actually read the book. Peredonovs hallicinations and insanity are the best part of the book, he gradually becomes completely disconnected from reality. Nature becomes perverse and haunting, the walls speak to him, and he eventually goes completely insane.
The other plot running through this is more difficult to parse, the story of Sasha c Glorious book. The other plot running through this is more difficult to parse, the story of Sasha crossdressing and eventually starting a riot with his beauty. I think that its more of a sick counterpart to the story of peredonov rather than its redemption, as some of the early critics seemed to think. The whole pivot of the thing is that peredonovs completely baseless accusation against Sasha turns out to be correct in a sick foem, that Sasha is in fact a boy dressing up as a girl instead of visa versa.
Im still processing how the plots interweave, but overall i loved the book. Recommended to Laura by: Dagny. Shelves: russian-fiction , read , e-books , fictionth-century , gutenberg. Free download available at Project Gutenberg. This book should be better known in the western world. At its heart is the antihero Peredonov, a petty official whose tyrannizing nature is equal only to his desire for promotion.
Peredonov resents and alienates everyone who he comes into contact with, from his mistress to his friends to his students. He is a teacher of Russian lite This book should be better known in the western world.
He is a teacher of Russian literature in the local high school, but doesn't seem to have a proclivity for books. His capers are at turns ridiculous, frightening, whimsical, and sad, the latter only because you're made aware of their futility from the outset. Peredonov is almost universally disliked. He spends his spare time either talking up local officials with the intention of preventing slander against himself, or inventing calumnious lies against his students.
This guy actually goes around to the homes of his students and tries to convince their parents to beat them, with varying degrees of success. The great hubris of Peredonov is his tendency to make enemies by trying to root out those same enemies. He is paranoid, perpetually mistrustful, and at times openly sadistic. As the story progresses, we're made increasingly aware of Peredonov's hallucinations and declining mental state.
We're given a possible 'explanation' for the character of Peredonov through a subplot focused around Sasha, a young androgynous student of Peredonov's. Sasha is deeply enamoured with Lyudmila Rutilov, a much older woman.
Lyudmila returns these feelings. Their affair is tender but deeply disturbing. We can't know what happens to Sasha when the story ends, but he probably ends up with complexes which are tantamount to Peredonov's. We're never given a direct explanation for Peredonov's initial paranoia and mistrust of others, and are left to wonder if perhaps his own childhood was very similar to Sasha's.
Little about Peredonov as Sologub presents him in actuality seems tragic. He's an unmitigated monster who deserves what he has coming to him. But, given the fact that Sasha's experiences seem to mirror Peredonov's own, we're left wondering if there might not be a deeper, more tragic side to Peredonov's character.
It's easy to imagine Sasha becoming someone like Peredonov later in life. It's a troubling psychological portrait of a petty bureaucrat, but is also a candid expose of the human character which only the best Russian authors seem to be capable of producing. An extraordinary, moving, frenetic, troubling, delightful little book. Early s, a Russian town, a local teacher who is a sleaze, boorish, dull and egotistical. He is also slowly going mad. There is a strange love affair between a young woman and a pubescent youth who half the town thinks is a girl.
When the teacher is on the page the book shines.
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