- Fiction, Russian fiction, Politics in fiction, Nihilism
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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- earnestironic
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- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Fiódor Dostoievski
- First published
- 1913
- Pages
- 704
- Publisher
- I. Ladyschnikow, Hofenberg Digital, Sovremennik
- Editions
- 171
- Language
- rum, Portuguese, Russian, German
- ISBN
- 9780394604411
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“IN UNDERTAKING to describe the recent and strange incidents in our town, till lately wrapped in uneventful obscurity, I find' myself forced in absence of literary skill to begin my story rather far back, that is to say, with certain biographical details concerning that talented and highly-esteemed gentleman, Stepan Trofimovitch Verhovensky.”
Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky was a journalist and short-story writer, whose psychological penetration into the human soul profoundly influenced the 20th century novel. Dostoevsky's novels have much autobiographical elements, but ultimately they deal with moral and philosophical questions. He presented interacting characters with contrasting views or ideas about freedom of choice, Socialism, atheisms, good and evil, happiness and so forth. Dostoevsky's central obsession was God, whom his characters constantly search through painful errors and humiliations. ([Source](http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fdosto.htm)) Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the trou
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