The Possessed
By: a new translation by Andrew R. MacAndrew ; with an afterword by Marc Slonim.
Edition: 13th printing
Series: Signet Classics
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translation of: Бесы
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 703
ISBN-13: 9780451519184
Copyright date: 1980
Other titles: Demons, Devils
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

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Notes: Bibliography: p. [702-703]
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