The Possessed (The Devils): Fyodor Dostoevsky A Novel In Three Parts

by Global Trade

A multi-threaded, diabolical story about how noble ideas of individual freedom in the minds of people who are not ready for freedom, shaped in the grip of tsarist autocracy, turn into ideas of nihilism, inert revolutionary movements, and terrorism.
Thick with dark emotions, a mixture of hypocrisy and nobility, hatred and compassion, innocence and amoral cynicism, the Devils are a crooked mirror of the then - so sometimes up-to-date in the attitudes described - intellectual dreams of human utopia and a prophetic announcement of the emergence of a Stalinist version of totalitarianism.

Fyodor Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, philosopher, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880).

535 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2021

Reviews

[Xoxotriciababe · Rating 4 out of 5]

it’s all about political chaos, obsessed and twisted boys. there are scenes of manipulation, abuse of power, very violent, and immoral acts among the revolutionary group. Dostoevsky explores how extreme ideologies can completely ruin people and society