{"first_publish_date": "1997", "title": "The perverted ideal in Dostoevsky's \"The Devils\"", "covers": [3845789], "lc_classifications": ["PG3325.B63 A5 1997"], "subject_people": ["Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)"], "key": "/works/OL3241326W", "authors": [{"type": "/type/author_role", "author": {"key": "/authors/OL528447A"}}], "dewey_number": ["891.73/3"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Dostoyevsky, fyodor, 1821-1881"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The Devils (also translated as The Possessed) is one of the four major novels of the great nineteenth-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. This book is the first full-length English-language study of The Devils to examine the novel as a unified whole. Its approach is based upon recognition of a central theme of Dostoevsky's thought: the human need of and search for an ideal transcending the needs and demands of one's own self.\n\nSuch an ideal may be expressed in many spheres - in religion, in the relations between human beings, and in aesthetics. As this work demonstrates, The Devils is a powerful psychological and sociological study of what occurs when the ideal of transcendence is denied in each of these spheres and a perverted ideal - an anti-ideal - is set up in its place."}, "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T03:03:34.716473"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-12T23:15:47.807688"}}