Fiodor Sologub

About the Author

Fiodor Sologub was a Russian Symbolist writer, poet, playwright, and teacher whose work explores spiritual desolation, social confinement, desire, and the uncanny. Born Fyodor Teternikov in 1863, he became one of the leading voices of Russian Decadence, developing a distinctive vision marked by pessimism, psychological intensity, and dreamlike symbolism. His prose and poetry often reveal the tensions between oppressive reality and imagined transcendence. For contemporary readers, Dolce come il veleno (Italian Edition) offers an entry point into his dark, lyrical, and unsettling literary world, where beauty and corruption remain inseparably intertwined.