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Literature & Fiction

The Devils: The Possessed (Penguin Classics)

The Devils: The Possessed (Penguin Classics)

â€œWhat I am writing now is a tendentious thing,â€ Dostoyevsky wrote to a friend in connection with his first outline for The Devils. â€œI feel like saying everything as passionately as possible. (Let the nihilists and the Westerners scream that I am reactionary!) To hell with them. I shall say everything to the last word.â€
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As Dostoyevsky predicted, The Devils, or The Possessed, was indeed denounced by radical critics as the work of a reactionary renegade. But radicals aside, it enjoyed great success both for its literary power and for its explicit and provocative politics; and for its story of Russian terrorists plotting violence and destruction, only to murder one of their own number.
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â€œStavroginâ€™s Confessionâ€, the section omitted when the novel first appeared, is included as an appendix to this volume.
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Classics
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 1954-02-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780140440355

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