Demons
Contributors: Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Edition: 1st Vintage Classics edition (13)
Series: Vintage Classics
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1995-08
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: eng
Translation of: Besy
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9780679734512
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Literature: Texts; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Classics; Terrorists; Fiction; Russia; Nihilism; Literary; Fiction / Literary; 1533-1917; Social life and customs
Other titles: Possessed, Devils
Description: Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified 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.
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