The Devils
(The Possessed)
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
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A grim prophecy of the Russian Revolution
'What I am writing now is a tendentious thing', Dostoyevsky wrote to a friend in connection with his first outline for The Devils. 'I feel like saying everything as passionately as possible. (Let nihilists and the Westerners scream that I am reactionary!) To hell with them. I shall say everything ot the last word.'
As Dostoyevsky predicted, The Devils or The Possessed, was indeed denounced by radical critics as the work of a reactionary renegade. But radicals aside, it enjoyed great success both for its literary power and for its explicit and provocative politics; and for its story of Russian terrorists plotting violence and destruction, only to murder one of their own number.
'Stavrogin's Confession', the section omitted when the novel first appeared, is included as an appendix to this volume.
--back cover
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Fiction, Russian fiction, Politics in fiction, Nihilism, Social life and customs, Terrorists, Manners and customs, Romans, Fiction, political, Terrorists, fiction, Russia (federation), fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Slavic philology, Terrorism, Nihilismo, Terrorismo, Novela, Vido social y costumbres, Fiction, general, Nihilism--fiction, Terrorists--russia--fiction, Pg3325 .b6 2008, 891.733, Political science, Fiction, psychological, Drama, history and criticismPlaces
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"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."
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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.
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