Demons Introduction by Joseph Frank

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, Dostoevsky conceived of Demons 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 prerevolutionary Russia--a novel that is rivalled only by The Brothers Karamazov as Dostoevsky's greatest.

About the Translators

Richard Pevear has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Albert Savinio, and Pavel Florensky, as well as two books of poetry. He has received fellowships for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of the translation of The Brothers Karamazov. Larissa Volokhonsky was born in Leningrad. She has translated the work of the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff.

Pevear and Volokhonsky were awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for their version of The Brothers Karamazov. They are married and live in France

Introduction

xi

Select Bibliography

xxxii

Chronology

xxxiv

Translator's Note

xli

PART ONE

Instead of an Introduction

7

(33)

Prince Harry. Matchmaking

40

(40)

Someone Else's Sins

80

(45)

The Lame Girl

125

(34)

The Wise Serpent

159

(50)

PART TWO

Night

209

(48)

Night (Continued)

257

(25)

The Duel

282

(13)

All in Expectation

295

(23)

Before the Fete

318

(25)

Pyotr Stepanovich Bustles About

343

(45)

With Our People

388

(25)

Ivan the Tsarevich

413

(11)

Stepan Trofimovich Perquisitioned

424

(11)

Filibusters. A Fatal Morning

435

(26)

PART THREE

The Fete. First Part

461

(29)

The End of the Fete

490

(29)

A Finished Romance

519

(22)

The Last Decision

541

(24)

A Traveler

565

(32)

A Toilsome Night

597

(33)

The Last Peregrination of Stepan Trofimovich

630

(36)

Conclusion

666

(15)

Appendix At Tikhon's

681

(34)

Notes

715

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