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Demons
  • Published: 4 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9780099140016
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 768
  • RRP: $32.99
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Demons

A Novel in Three Parts (Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)

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EBook
30 Sept 2011
Paperback
4 Nov 2021
Hardback
15 Oct 2000
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The Great Russian novelist's disturbing and compelling study of terrorism, through five young men saturated in ideology and bent on destruction

'The most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Guardian

Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new political reformers, particularly those known as Nihilists. Blackly funny, grotesque and shocking, Demons is a disturbing portrait of five young men saturated in ideology and bent on destruction, and a compelling study of terrorism.

'Marvellous...a fluid and well-paced translation' Observer
  • Published: 4 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9780099140016
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 768
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

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Praise for Demons

Required reading for anyone who wants to understand the mind of the terrorist

Sunday Times

Marvellous...fluid and well-paced translation

Observer

Volokhonsky's and Pevear's translation brings to the surface all of Dostoevsky's subtle linguistic and nationalist humour, and the copious notes are indispensable for making one's way through the thicket of 19th-century Russian politics

Kirkus Reviews

An outstanding achievement

John Bayley

As close to Dostoevsky's Russian as is possible in English

Chicago Tribune