Word: nedotykomka
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...reflect this in The Petty Demon, Sologub torments Peredonov with a symbol of his own and the world's baseness, embodied in the shifting form of a bogy-like hallucination called a nedotykomka-"a person one can't touch." At first Peredonov tries to catch and destroy the nedotykomka. But his rage to destroy it-like all petty human rage and resentment, according to Sologub-is part of the dark inheritance from Cain. It becomes a rage to destroy everything. Peredonov is doomed...
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