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Demons

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May 19, 2010 - Fiction - 768 pages
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.


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User Review  - David - Goodreads

I am a huge fan of Dostoyevsky's two great novels – The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment. Though it is always tempting to reread such books, I decided it was time to move on to some of ... Read full review

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User Review  - Jack Waters - Goodreads

4.5 stars Dostoevsky is a master of oscillating between the micro- and macrocosmic effects of societal and personal politicization. He uses his narrator to bring a personal take on the revolutionary ... Read full review

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About the Translators

   Richard Pevear has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Albert Savinio, and Pavel Florensky, as well as two books of poetry.  He has received fellowships for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of the translation of The Brothers Karamazov. Larissa Volokhonsky was born in Leningrad.  She has translated the work of the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff.

   Pevear and Volokhonsky were awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for their version of The Brothers Karamazov. They are married and live in France




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