Russian tales of demonic possession: translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia

✍ Scribed by Marcia A. Morris

• Book ID: 100186102
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2012;2014
• Tongue: en-us
• Weight: 130 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0739194631

✦ Synopsis

Russian Tales of Demonic Possession: Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia is a translation from the Russian of two stories of demonic possession, of innocence lost and regained. The original versions of both tales date back to the seventeenth century, but the feats of suffering and triumph described in them are timeless. Aleksei Remizov, one of Russia's premiere modernists, recognized the relevance of the late-medieval material for his own mid-twentieth-century readers and rewrote both tales, publishing them in 1951 under the title The Demoniacs. The volume offers a new translation of the original Tale of Savva Grudtsyn as well as first-ever translations of The Tale of The Demoniac Solomonia and Remizov's Demoniacs.
Russian Tales of Demonic Possession opens with an introduction that interprets and contextualizes both the late-medieval and the twentieth-century tales. By providing new critical interpretations of all four tales as well as a short discussion of the...