Demons (Translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky 1994)

✍ Scribed by Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Book ID: 111600268
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 1871
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 490 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307434869

✦ Synopsis

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Genre: Literature

ebook, 689 pages

Paperback, 880 pages

Published: 1872

Edition: Vintage Classics Edition (1995)

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Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

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Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Published: July 15th 2008

Oxford World's Classics

Michael R. Katz (Translator) }

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Devils, also known in English as The Possessed and The Demons, was first published in 1871-2. The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, it is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray which follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. Dostoevsky compares infectious radicalism to the devils that drove the Gadarene swine over the precipice in his vision of a society possessed by demonic creatures that produce devastating delusions of rationality. Dostoevsky weaves suicide, rape, and a multiplicity of scandals into a compelling story of political evil, yet he is at his most humorous in Devils: the novel is full of buffoonery and a grotesque comedy.

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