Demons

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified russia in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevksy conceived 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 he emerged with in 1872 was at once his darkest novel until The Brothers Karamazov and his most ferociously funn. For alongside its relentlessly escalating plot of conspiracy and assassinatio, DEMONS is a blistering comedy of ideas run amok. It is also a riot of literary voices, whose profusion, energy, and variety are rendered "extraordinaire" in this new English version. 733p.