The Devils: The Possessed (Penguin Classics)

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor; Magarshack, David [Translator]; Magarshack, David [Introduction];

ISBN 10: 0140440356 / ISBN 13: 9780140440355

Edité par Penguin Classics, 1954

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N° de réf. du vendeur 0140440356-3-23674803

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• Titre: The Devils: The Possessed (Penguin Classics)
• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date de parution: 1954
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0140440356
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780140440355
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Good
• Poids: 11 onces

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Synopsis

In The Devils Dostoyevsky created a chilling and prophetic story of revolutionaries and nihilists plotting the overthrow of the Russian government and the downfall of the Russian church. It focuses on the complex and tormented character of Stavrogin, a desperate man whose loss of faith makes him dangerous. Believing he is beyond guilt and remorse, he commits terrible crimes, infects others with ideas he does not believe in and accepts love he does not deserve. Yet Stavrogin is only one of a small band of rebels whose hunger for a more democratic, Western system threatens the fabric of Russian society, and The Devils is a brilliant psychological analysis of a group of people possessed by a destructive passion for revolution.

À propos de l?auteur

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky 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.