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Demons Paperback – 27 March 2008

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author), Joanna Moorhead (Contributor), Robert Belknap (Introduction),
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Demons, also known as The Possessed or The Devils, is a dark masterpiece that evokes a world where the lines between and good and evil long ago became blurred. This Penguin Classics edition of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Demons is translated by Robert A. Maguire and edited by Ronald Meyer, with an introduction by Robert L. Belknap.

Pyotr Verkhovensky and Nikolai Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy society and seize power for themselves. Together they train terrorists who are willing to go to any lengths to achieve their goals - even if the mission means suicide. But when it seems their motley group is about to be discovered, will their recruits be willing to kill one of their own circle in order to cover their tracks? As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer, Dostoyevsky's and everyone's faith in humanity is tested. Partly based on the real-life case of a student murdered by his fellow revolutionaries, Dostoyevsky's sprawling novel is a powerful and prophetic, yet lively and often comic depiction of nineteenth-century Russia, and a savage indictment of the madness and nihilism of those who use violence to serve their beliefs.

Robert A. Maguire's superb translation captures Dostoyevsky's vigorous prose. In his introduction, Robert L. Belknap discusses Dostoyevsky's own revolutionary activities, his narrative technique and use of different genres, and the background of Radicalism in Imperial Russia. Edited by Ronald Meyer, this volume also includes a chronology, further reading, notes and a glossary.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow. From 1849-54 he lived in a convict prison, and in later years his passion for gambling led him deeply into debt. His other works available in Penguin Classics include Crime & Punishment, The Idiot and Demons.

If you enjoyed Demons, you might like Joris-Karl Huysmans' The Damned (Là-Bas), also available in Penguin Classics.

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    27 March 2008
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    English
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? Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life, happier even than the discovery of Stendhal.?
?Friedrich Nietzsche



Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life, happier even than the discovery of Stendhal.
Friedrich Nietzsche

a Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life, happier even than the discovery of Stendhal.a
aFriedrich Nietzsche

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk(1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons(1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881.

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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 880 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141441410
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141441412
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
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Sijia
5.0 out of 5 stars Arrived in good condition
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Good paperback edition with large, readable text. Virtually no damage on arrival.
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Can't comment its content yet, even htough I have no doubts it's great.
But the copy arrived with significantly distorted cover on both sides.
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Book arrived in good condition. As for the content of the book - it's Dostoevsky. You probably know what you're looking for.
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Jill
5.0 out of 5 stars Another favourite from Dostoevsky
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I lack of knowledge of Russian political and moral nihilism during the reign of Tsar Alexander II, but Demons is based on real fact happened on November 1869s which Dostoevsky got inspired and portrayed in this novel, first published in 1872 on the Russian Herald Journal.

It is narrated by a close friend of Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky, his name is Anton Lavrentievich G— who tells not only the inner conflict of good and evil and the hypocrisy of high society but also the inevitable gap between two generations, father and sons, and the conflict between values and traditionalists

Pyotr Venkhovensky, the son of Stephan Trofinovich Venkhovensky, an academic who contributed to the nihilistic forces, is the manipulative, anti-nihilistic young man based on the revolutionary Sergey Nechayev, leader of a small group of conspirators: indeed his character is the mastermind behind other characters' choices, enamoured of Nikolai Stavrogin, the main character of the novel, son of Varvara Patrovna, a wealthy landowner. Stavrogin is charming, handsome, fearless and self-centred but at the same time pensive, apathetic and tormented to death by something, like an evil entity eating him alive. He is constantly absent in the novel, Dostoevsky does it on purpose, describing perfectly his 'non-existence persona'. Pyotr sees in Stavrogin a symbolic leader for the revolutionary cell, whose members are also Ivan Shatov, a skeptical, generally taciturn and melancholic former intellectual, brother of Darya Pavlovna. His character was also based by a student murdered during Sergey Nechayev's propaganda - and Alexei Kirillov, an engineer who lives and spent a year in America working as farm worker with Shatov; atheist, reclusive and fanatic young man who fully depicts the Übermensch concept of Friedrich Nietzche to become God – or better the ‘Man-God’.

"Generally speaking, in every misfortune that befalls one's neighbour there is something that gladdens the eye of the onlooker, it doesn't make any difference who you may be."
(Part II, Chapter 5)

Dense, corrupt, dark - Dostoevsky has done a majestic job intersecting the lives of all its characters, and there are many, so as to create a continuity throughout the story. During the reading you have to be very careful not to leave out every little detail, in fact it took me two and a half months to read it, but it was totally worth it !
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Always instructive and just an overall great read.
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