Demons (Everyman"s Library, 182)
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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780375411229
Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Producer
Random House, Inc.
Year of production
2000
(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 ânovel-pamphletâ 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 Russiaâa novel that is rivaled only by The Brothers Karamazov as Dostoevskyâs greatest.