Devils
Оригинальная книга- ISBN 9781840220995
- Вид пособия Оригинальная книга
- Язык Английский
- Издательство Wordsworth
- Курс Wordsworth classics
- Возраст 18+
- Возрастное ограничение 0
- Страна производства Англия
- Автор Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 330р.
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"If you
want to overcome the whole world, overcome
yourself."
Translated by Constance Garnett with an
Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs.
In
1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a
pond. His crime? A wish to leave small group of violent revolutionaries, from
which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as
the subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers the young radicals
themselves and also to the materialistic ideas that possessed the minds of many
thinking people Russian society at the time.
The
satirical portraits of the revolutionaries, with their naivety, ludicrous
single-mindedness and readiness for murder and destruction, might seem
exaggerated - until we consider their all-too-recognisable descendants in the
real world ever since. The key figure in the novel, however, is beyond
politics. Nikolay Stavrogin, another product of rationalism run wild, exercises
his charisma with ruthless authority and total amorality. His unhappiness is
accounted for when he confesses to a ghastly sexual crime - in a chapter long
suppressed by the censor.
This
prophetic account of modern morals and politics, with its fifty-odd characters,
amazing events and challenging ideas, is seen by some critics as Dostoevsky's
masterpiece.
Год издания: 2018
Объем: 720 c.
ISBN: 9781840220995