CANDIDE TRANSLATED BY THE 'RUSSIAN SCHOPENHAUER'
VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de. SOLOGUB, Fedor Kuzmich, pseud. [Fedor TETERNIKOV], translator.
Kandid, ili optimizm. Roman. Perevod s nemetskago… Fedora Sologuba [Candide, or optimism. A novel. Translated from the German… by Fyodor Sologub].
St Petersburg, “Panteon”, 1909.
Small 8vo, pp. [3]-154, with engraved frontispiece portrait of Voltaire; a very good copy in the original printed wrappers, dust-soiled.
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Kandid, ili optimizm. Roman. Perevod s nemetskago… Fedora Sologuba [Candide, or optimism. A novel. Translated from the German… by Fyodor Sologub].
First edition, very rare, of Sologub’s translation of Candide.
A second edition was published in 1919. The leading Symbolist poet, short-story writer, novelist and dramatist, dubbed by Volynsky ‘a kind of Russian Schopenhauer’, was one of the most famous writers of his day. He also translated a great deal of poetry into Russian, particularly Verlaine, as well as works by Oscar Wilde, Balzac, and Maupassant.
OCLC records a copy at Yale only.
