Sologub, Fyodor [pseud.], 1863-1927 / 2008-06-13 00:00:00
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THE
CREATED LEGEND
BY FEODOR SOLOGUB
AUTHORIZED
TRANSLATION FROM
THE RUSSIAN BY
JOHN COURNOS
INTRODUCTION
_"For there is nothing either good or
bad but thinking makes it so."_
SHAKESPEARE
_"To the impure all things are impure."_
NIETZSCHE
_In "The Little Demon" Sologub has shown us how the evil within us
peering out through our imagination makes all the world seem evil to
us. In "The Created Legend," feeling perhaps the need of reacting from
his morose creation Peredonov, the author has set himself the task of
showing the reverse of the picture: how the imagination, no longer
warped, but sensitized with beauty, is capable of creating a world of
its own, legendary yet none the less real for the legend._
_The Russian title of the book is more descriptive of the author's
intentions than an English translation will permit it to be.
"Tvorimaya Legenda" actually means "The legend in the course of
creation." The legend that Sologub has in mind is the active,
eternally changing process of life, orderly and structural in spite of
the external confusion. The author makes an effort to bring order out
of apparent chaos by stripping life of its complex modern detail and
reducing it to a few significant symbols, as in a rather more subtle
"morality play.
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