Short Fiction

Fyodor Sologub

Short Fiction — This volume gathers fifty stories and short prose pieces by Fyodor Sologub, ranging from longer works such as The Old House and Light and Shadows to miniature fables and strange parables. Moving between Russian everyday life and symbolic fantasy, the collection explores childhood, death, desire, loneliness, cruelty, and moral absurdity with melancholy, irony, and the uncanny.