by Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140440355
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«The Devils» is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's political novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (704 pages, in English).
A group of revolutionaries and nihilists conspires to overthrow the Russian government and the Orthodox Church from a small provincial town. At the centre is Nikolai Stavrogin, an unbelieving man whose loss of faith makes him dangerous; Dostoyevsky portrays the passions that the idea of revolution unleashes in society.
Original title: «Бесы» (1871-1872). This edition includes the translation and introduction by David Magarshack and the appendix «Stavrogin's Confession».
Recommended for readers of Russian classics and political and philosophical fiction, interested in nihilism and revolution.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian philosopher, novelist, short-story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), The Adolescent (1875) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His Notes from Underground, a novella published in 1864, is considered one of the first works of existentialist literature.
