Fyodor Dostoevsky Demons Hardback Book

Set in mid 19thcentury Russia, Demons examines the effect of a charismatic but unscrupulous selfstyled 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 "novelpamphlet" 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 prerevolutionary Russiaa novel that is rivaled only by The Brothers Karamazov as Dostoevskys greatest. The awardwinning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, also known as The Possessed. | Fyodor Dostoevsky Demons Hardback Book