Posolon' ('Salting'), Aleksey Remizov. Tall 4to, [6] 78 [2] pages, 28cm, Moskva: lzd.zhurnla "Zolotoe Runo" 1907.
Illustrations within the text, presumably by the author. Cream pictorial covers (a little soiled) in black and light blue laid down on a new spine strip.Rear cover slightly skinned and with a small biro mark. A very rare book. A good copy.
Aleksey Mikhailovich Remizov (1877-1951) was a Russian modernist writer whose creative imagination veered to the fantastic and bizarre. Apart from literary works, Remizov was an expert calligrapher who sought to revive this visual art in Russia. In 1905, he settled in Saint Petersburg and started to imitate medieval folk tales. His self-professed ambition was to catch "the bitterness and absurdity of folklore imagination". Remizov's whimsical stylizations of the saints' lives were ignored at first, partly due to their florid and turgid language, but his more traditional prose works set in the underworld of Russian cities gained him a great deal of publicity. In his satirical novella The History of the Tinkling Cymbal and Sounding Brass (1910/1922) Remizov depicted the eccentricities and superstitions of rural sectarians. Another striking work of this period is "The Sacrifice", a Gothic horror story in which "a ghostly double of a father comes to kill his innocent daughter in the mistaken belief that she is a chicken"
