num_pages: 703
description: In THE POSSESSED, Stavrogin and Verhovensky dabble in radical politics - with tragic results for an entire town as fanaticism brings robbery, arson, and murder. As for Stavrogin, his political passion is more of a possession by demons that makes him destroy others as well as himself. This rich story mirrors the turmoil of nineteenth-century Russia Dostoyevsky denounces both nihilists and revolutionaries: "Dostoyevsky worte of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological' while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature." - Edwin Muir--back cover
language: English
title: The Possessed
titlecomplete: The Possessed
characters: Alexei Nilych Kirilov, Ivan Shatov, Captain Lebyadkin, Stepan Trofimovitch Verhovensky, Shigalyov, Liputin, Lizaveta Nikolaevna, Nikolai Vsevolodovich Stavrogin, Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky, Varvara Stavrogina
genres: Literature, Classics, Novels, Philosophy, Russian Literature, 19th Century, Russia, Fiction, Politics, Classic Literature
ratings_count: 49573
places: Russia
publisher: New American Library