(#136379) THE KISS OF THE UNBORN AND OTHER STORIES ... Translated and with an Introduction by Murl G. Barker. Fyodor Sologub, Fyodor-Kuzmich Teternikov.

THE KISS OF THE UNBORN AND OTHER STORIES ... Translated and with an Introduction by Murl G. Barker. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, [1977]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "One of the most decadent of the Russian symbolists, his work is haunted by images of death and sexuality. Like Poe and Baudelaire, to whom his work has been compared, Sologub was an alchemist with words, able to transmute his morbid obsessions into beautifully stylized prose and verse that is among the finest in Russian literature ... Sologub's short stories and poetry explore his Symbolist themes in a more concise form: death, often of children; perversity; and diabolism all much in evidence ..." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 394. Faint crease to front free endpaper, else a fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with light wear at upper spine end. (#136379).

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