Devils
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated with an introduction and notes by Michael R. Katz.
Contributors: Katz, Michael R.
Edition: Reissue
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Translation of: Бесы
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 800
ISBN-13: 9780199540495
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: Nihilism -- Fiction; Terrorists -- Russia -- Fiction; Russia -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Besy.
Description: 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.

This new translation also includes the chapter `Stavrogin's Confession', which was initially considered to be too shocking to print. In this edition it appears where the author originally intended it. 

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Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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