This prophetic account of modern morals and politics, with its fifty-odd characters, amazing events and challenging ideas, is seen by some critics as Dostoevsky’s masterpiece. No less horrific is the cynicism and viciousness of the infighting conducted by the insurrectionists.

The centrality of the narrative rests on the insidious, pernicious impact on all social tiers of a Russian town of a revolutionary cell in its midst. His unhappiness is accounted for when he confesses to a ghastly sexual crime – in a chapter long suppressed by the censor. Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevskys 1871-72 novel Devils is a masterpiece. Nikolay Stavrogin, another product of rationalism run wild, exercises his charisma with ruthless authority and total amorality. The extremists hope to replace themselves at the. The key figure in the novel, however, is beyond politics. Dostoevsky depicts a radical group that desires to overthrow the government and undermine the Russian church. The satirical portraits of the revolutionaries, with their naivety, ludicrous single-mindedness and readiness for murder and destruction, might seem exaggerated – until we consider their all-too-recognisable descendants in the real world ever since. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers the young radicals themselves and also to the materialistic ideas that possessed the minds of many thinking people Russian society at the time. His crime? A wish to leave small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. Show more Download Choose your file Higher quality (128kbps) Lower quality (64kbps). Adam Driver in THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (2019) : DEVILS (1872) BY FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY. What happened to Stavrogin that he became so cruel? Who is the mysterious stranger Marya, who claims to know Stavrogin from his time in St.Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by A.D.P. Dostoevsky’s The Devils a grim prophecy of totalitarian rule in a Russia on the brink of revolution. Later, the youthful idealism of Stepan's son Pyotr becomes his downfall as he assembled a terrorist cell bent on ushering in the revolution, preferably with Stavrogin at its head. The marriage is a scheme to prevent Darya from marrying the patroness' own son, the strong but amoral Stavrogin. Petersburg, the story follows failed academic Stepan Verkhovensky as his patroness forces him to become engaged to her ward Darya. Set in a fictional provincial town near St. Based on the true-life political murder of Ivan Ivanov by the revolutionary Sergey Nechayev, Dostoevsky wrote this tale of society scandals, doomed marriages and fatally misguided idealism after returning from exile in Siberia. Devils, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is a classic political satire exploring the effects of imported European ideologies such as atheism and nihilism on Christian Russia.

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