Set in a provincial Russian town, Demons (also known as The Devils and The Possessed), follows a circle of revolutionaries led by Pyotr Verkhovensky, a cunning agitator who orchestrates a campaign of subversion.
Using lies, blackmail, and violence, Pyotr seeks to incite rebellion, manipulating the troubled intellectual Stavrogin-a man torn between nihílism and a tormented conscience. As the group's influence grows, a series of increasingly disturbing events unfolds: secret meetings, political conspiracies, and senseless acts of destruction. The town descends into madness, its people either complicit or powerless. When a brutal murder shatters the already fraying social order, the conspirators' true motives begin to unravel.
Now, with suspicion rising and the revolution veering out of control, Stavrogin must decide where he stands-before everything ignites.
One of Dostoyevsky's most politically charged works, Demons is both a chilling warning and a masterful literary achievement that remains startlingly relevant in its portrayal of ideology run amok.
About the Author
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow on November 11, 1821. He is known for his profound understanding of human psychology and his ability to bring forth the darkest realms of human nature. Dostoyevsky inspired a number of modern movements including Existentialism, literary criticism and many schools of psychology and theology. He influenced a number of modern philosophers and writers including Anton Chekov, George Orwell and Jean-Paul Sartre. He is best known for his novels Notes from Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (serialized from 1868 to 1869), The Possessed or otherwise known as Demons (serialised from 1871 to 1872) and The Brothers Karamazov (serialised from 1879 to 1880). Dostoyevsky died on February 9, 1881 at the age of 59, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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