• Title - Devils • Author’s Name - Fyodor Dostoevsky • ISBN - 9781840220995 (already attached to a different edition by the same publisher) • Publisher - Wordsworth Classics • Publication date - 2005 • Format - Paperback • Page count - 705 • Description - In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catatrophe as the subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers to the young radicals themselves and also to the materialistic ideas that possessed thr minds of many thinking people in Russian society at the time.
The satirical portraits of the revolutionaries, with their naivety, ludicrous single-mindedness and readiness for murder and destructkon, might seem exaggerated - until we consider their all-too-recognisable descendents in the real world ever since. The key figure in the novel, however, is beyond politics. Nicolay Stavrogin, another product of rationalism run wild, exercises his charisma with ruthless authority and total amorality. His unhappiness is accounted for when he confesses to a ghastly sexual crime - in a chapter long suppressed by the censor.
This prophetic account of modern morals and politics, with its fifty-ofd characters, amazing events and challenging ideas, is seen by some as Dostoevsky’s masterpiece. • Link - https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/...
• Author’s Name - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• ISBN - 9781840220995 (already attached to a different edition by the same publisher)
• Publisher - Wordsworth Classics
• Publication date - 2005
• Format - Paperback
• Page count - 705
• Description -
In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catatrophe as the subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers to the young radicals themselves and also to the materialistic ideas that possessed thr minds of many thinking people in Russian society at the time.
The satirical portraits of the revolutionaries, with their naivety, ludicrous single-mindedness and readiness for murder and destructkon, might seem exaggerated - until we consider their all-too-recognisable descendents in the real world ever since. The key figure in the novel, however, is beyond politics. Nicolay Stavrogin, another product of rationalism run wild, exercises his charisma with ruthless authority and total amorality. His unhappiness is accounted for when he confesses to a ghastly sexual crime - in a chapter long suppressed by the censor.
This prophetic account of modern morals and politics, with its fifty-ofd characters, amazing events and challenging ideas, is seen by some as Dostoevsky’s masterpiece.
• Link - https://wordsworth-editions.com/book/...