THE
CREATED LEGEND


BY FEODOR SOLOGUB


AUTHORIZED
TRANSLATION FROM
THE RUSSIAN BY
JOHN COURNOS




INTRODUCTION


_"For there is nothing either good or
bad but thinking makes it so."_
SHAKESPEARE

_"To the impure all things are impure."_
NIETZSCHE


_In "The Little Demon" Sologub has shown us how the evil within us
peering out through our imagination makes all the world seem evil to
us. In "The Created Legend," feeling perhaps the need of reacting from
his morose creation Peredonov, the author has set himself the task of