Demons

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"The merit in this edition of Demons resides in the% technical virtuosity of the translators ; ,They capture the feverishly intense, . persoftal'explosions of activity and emötion that/1; / . . manifest them^lves in Russian life,".
| —.TheNew York Times Book Re view
Inspited bjKthVtrue stoiy of a politica! mürder that horrified Russia" in f869, Fyodor' Dostoevsky conceived Demons as 1 "novel-paniphlet" in' which he woulcl say, everything ?Bout the plague :qf materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What he emerged with in 1872 was at once his darkest novel until The Brothers Karamazov and his moist-ferpciously funny. For alongside its relendessly esealating plot of conspiracy and assassination, Demons (which earlier translators erroneously titled The Possessed) is a blistering comedy of ideas run amok. And, like all of Dostoevsky's novels,4 it is alsoa riot ofiiterary voiceSj whose profiision, energy, and variety are rendered wonderftilly... Tovább

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fiction/literature
"The merit in this edition of Demons resides in the% technical virtuosity of the translators ; ,They capture the feverishly intense, . persoftal'explosions of activity and emötion that/1; / . . manifest them^lves in Russian life,".
| —.TheNew York Times Book Re view
Inspited bjKthVtrue stoiy of a politica! mürder that horrified Russia" in f869, Fyodor' Dostoevsky conceived Demons as 1 "novel-paniphlet" in' which he woulcl say, everything ?Bout the plague :qf materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What he emerged with in 1872 was at once his darkest novel until The Brothers Karamazov and his moist-ferpciously funny. For alongside its relendessly esealating plot of conspiracy and assassination, Demons (which earlier translators erroneously titled The Possessed) is a blistering comedy of ideas run amok. And, like all of Dostoevsky's novels,4 it is alsoa riot ofiiterary voiceSj whose profiision, energy, and variety are rendered wonderftilly ;in this newEnglish version by, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, winners : of the PpN BoökTof-the-Month Club Transletion Prize. 'v>
"Demons is theDostqévsky' novel for oür age :. .
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