Aleksei Remizov è stato uno scrittore modernista russo la cui immaginazione si è addentrata nel fantastico e nel bizzarro, attingendo ampiamente al folklore russo e all'arte medievale. Cercò di far rivivere antiche forme artistiche attraverso la sua prosa unica, spesso stilizzando le sue opere nello stile di racconti e leggende medievali. La sua scrittura esplorò frequentemente gli aspetti più oscuri della società russa e della psiche umana, incorporando elementi di satira e horror gotico. La voce distintiva di Remizov, intrisa del sapore dell'immaginazione popolare e di visioni oniriche, lo distinse come una figura letteraria veramente originale.
Alexei Remizov was one of the greatest writers of the Russian Symbolist movement. In the thirteen stories collected in this volume, his exceptional stylistic achievements are on full display. The Little Devil and Other Stories includes works from across Remizov's career encompassing his thematic preoccupations and stylistic experimentation.
The first English translation of this remarkable 1910 novel by Alexei Remizov, one of the most influential members of the Russian Symbolist movement, Sisters of the Cross is a masterpiece of early modernist fiction. In the tradition of Gogol's Petersburg Tales and Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, it deploys densely packed psychological prose and fluctuating narrative perspective to tell the story of a poor clerk who rebels against the suffering and humiliation afflicting both his own life and the lives of the remarkable women whom he encounters in the tenement building where he lives in Petersburg. Remizov is best known as a writer of short stories and fairy tales, but this early novel, masterfully translated by Roger Keys and Brian Murphy, is perhaps his most significant work of sustained artistic prose.