Demons Introduction by Joseph Frank
, by Dostoevsky, Fyodor; Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa; Frank, Joseph- ISBN: 9780375411229 | 0375411224
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/24/2000
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.