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  • Published: 4 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9780099140016
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 768
  • RRP: $38.00
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Demons




The Great Russian novelist's disturbing and compelling study of terrorism, through five young men saturated in ideology and bent on destruction

'The most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Guardian

Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new political reformers, particularly those known as Nihilists. Blackly funny, grotesque and shocking, Demons is a disturbing portrait of five young men saturated in ideology and bent on destruction, and a compelling study of terrorism.

'Marvellous...a fluid and well-paced translation' Observer

  • Published: 4 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9780099140016
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 768
  • RRP: $38.00
Categories:

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About the author

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk (1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons (1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881.

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Praise for Demons

Required reading for anyone who wants to understand the mind of the terrorist

Sunday Times

Marvellous...fluid and well-paced translation

Observer

Volokhonsky's and Pevear's translation brings to the surface all of Dostoevsky's subtle linguistic and nationalist humour, and the copious notes are indispensable for making one's way through the thicket of 19th-century Russian politics

Kirkus Reviews

An outstanding achievement

John Bayley

As close to Dostoevsky's Russian as is possible in English

Chicago Tribune