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To the Stars and Other Stories

By Susanne Fusso
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Publisher Description

Fyodor Sologub (the pseudonym of Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, 1863–1927) was a major Russian Symbolist poet and prose writer. The son of a tailor and a maid, he began his career as a provincial high school teacher and attained literary fame in St. Petersburg at the turn of the twentieth century. He is best known for the novel The Petty Demon.

Susanne Fusso is Marcus L. Taft Professor of Modern Languages and professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies at Wesleyan University. Her translations include Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose and Other Stories (Columbia, 2020).

3 Reviews

3.5
“It's the first (translated) Russian-literature that I've read, I picked it up because of the blurb/description of the book. I'm glad that I did it. This book consists of short stories written by Fyodor Sologub, the lesser known Russian symbolist poet and prose writer and translated by Susanne Fusso. Reading this makes me realize the weight of translating a literature piece, and I want to applaud Fusso for did such a great job on capturing the beauty of Sologub's story that could be enjoyed by more people. Sologub's stories collection in this book mainly focused on the mundane lives that centered in children or adolescence age, on how they look up at the world and the adults around them. Though it has fairytale-like vibe, the stories mainly are dark, daunting, and hauntingly beautiful. I enjoyed it a lot, especially for "Beauty" and "The Saddened Fiance". If you're interested in reading Russian literature, this might be a good starter for you!”
“I've been wanting to read more translated literature lately and I'm glad this book was an opportunity to do that as well as read more short stories. I didn't know who was Fyodor Sologub as I know next to nothing about russian literature. Perhaps symbolism isn't really my cup of tea but these were good stories, although not happy ones. Well written and well translated. Thank you for the e-ARC in exchange of an honest review.”

About Susanne Fusso

Susanne Fusso is professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Wesleyan University. She is the translator of Trepanation of the Skull by Sergey Gandlevsky, and the author of Editing Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy: Mikhail Katkov and the Great Russian Novel (NIU Press, 2017).

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