Demons (Everyman's Library, 182)

(book Jacket Status: Jacketed) the Award-winning Translators Richard Pevear And Larissa Volokhonsky Continue Their Acclaimed Series Of Dostoevsky Translations With This Novel, Also Known As the Possessed . 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–a Novel That Is Rivaled Only By the Brothers Karamazov As Dostoevsky’s Greatest. library Journal pevear And Volokhonsky Have Found Critical Acclaim With Previous Translations Of Dostoevsky's brothers Karamazov (classic Returns, Lj 8/90), crime And Punishment (classic Returns, Lj 1/92), And notes From Underground (classic Returns, Lj 7/93). Their demons Should Be Equally Respected. Set in mid 19th-century Russia, Demons examines the effect of a charismatic but unscrupulous self-styled revolutionary leader on a group of credulous followers. 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–a novel that is rivaled only by The Brothers Karamazov as Dostoevsky’s greatest. The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, also known as The Possessed. source: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/42246/demons-by-fyodor-dostoevsky/ SUMMARY: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, also known as "The Possessed," 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-a novel that is rivaled only by "The Brothers Karamazov" as Dostoevsky's greatest. Fiction,Unread Also known as *Demons* or *The Devils*, this is Dostoyevsky’s most political novel. Though critical of the left-wing revolutionaries, split as they often were into disparate factions and cells the author also tacitly rebukes the conservative elite for failing to come to terms with the high levels of disaffection in the country, a stance that would ultimately lead to their downfall. BEFORE DESCRIBING THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS WHICH took place so recently in our town, hitherto not remarkable for anything in particular, I find it necessary, since I am not a skilled writer, to go back a little and begin with certain biographical details concerning our talented and greatly esteemed Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky.