Demons (Penguin Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (860 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0141441410 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 880 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-28 |
| Language | : | Russian |
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Most of his important works were written after 1864, including Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, all available from Penguin Classics. . Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), one of nineteenth-century Russia’s greatest novelists, spent four years in a convict prison in Siberia, after which he was obliged to enlist in the army. In later years his penchant for gambling sent him deeply into deb
An exemplary translation F. Sousa Demons or Devils or The Possessed, depending on which translation you pick up, is a complex book. Dostoyevsky himself admitted in a letter that he would sacrifice straightforward readability for the tendentiousness of the message(s) he transmits in this novel.As an examp. just read it no review will do dostoyevsky justice. Fyodor Dostoevsky Always a Special Treat Fyodor Dostoevsky never fails to captivate and entertain. Classic Russian literature that will be enjoyed by anyone who has read his other works.
Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy society, and seize power for themselves. But when the group is threatened with exposure, will their recruits be willing to kill one of their own to cover their tracks? Savage and powerful yet lively and often comic, Demons was inspired by a real-life political murder and is a scathing and eerily prescient indictment of those who use violence to serve their beliefs.. A superb new translation of Dostoyevsky?s chilling and prophetic novel of revolutionary fanaticismPyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Together they train terrorists who are willing to lay down their lives to accomplish their goals
Friedrich Nietzsche? Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life, happier even than the discovery of Stendhal.? ?Friedrich Nietzsche. a Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life, happier even than the discovery of Stendhal.a aFriedrich NietzscheDostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life, happier even than the discovery of Stendhal