@ARTICLE{Stawinoga_Ewa_Fiodor_2019, author={Stawinoga, Ewa}, volume={vol. LXVIII}, number={No 2}, pages={337-355}, journal={Slavia Orientalis}, howpublished={online}, year={2019}, publisher={Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN}, abstract={The foregoing article is an attempt at answering the question, whether Fiodor Sologub is rightly called a eulogist of evil and an apologist of devil, as well as a God-iconoclast. For this purpose the author is trying to revise the hitherto views concerning the fi gure of God in the lyric of the Russian poet. In the effect of conducted studies it was established that the myth of Sologub, “the literary Jack the Ripper”, functioning well until today was based on unjust and often prejudicial opinions of persons from the symbolist’s generation, as well as of the later experts in literature, who ascribed to them the “crimes” committed by the protagonists of his novels (sadism, erotomania, necrophilia and Satanism). The key problem of God-iconoclasty in turn, as it has been revealed, is connected with the issue of literary mask, a play with the reader. On one hand, the poet’s God-iconoclasty is an attempt of “getting inscribed” in the creative tendency that predominated in the Russian literature of that time (the “diabolic symbolism”), on the other – it constitutes one of the stages in looking for God and the development of lyrical “I”, carrying autobiographical traits.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Fiodor Sologub: Beetwen God and the Devil. Introduction to the Studie}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/112079/PDF/SO%202-19%208-E.Stawinoga.pdf}, doi={10.24425/slo.2019.128476}, keywords={Fiodor Isologue’s poetry, symbolism, God–iconoclasty, God seeking, literary mask, literary play with the reader, life-creating}, }