Demons (Everyman's Library, 182)

Demons (Everyman's Library, 182)

Set in mid 19th-century Russia, <i>Demons </i>examines the effect of a charismatic but unscrupulous self-styled revolutionary leader on a group of credulous followers.<p>Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of <i>Demons</i> as a “novel-pamphlet” 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 Russia–a novel that is rivaled only by <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> as Dostoevsky’s greatest.<br><br>The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, also known as <i>The Possessed</i>.<br><br>(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)</p>