![]() Fascinating for its character portraits and for its truths about people as political animals, Demons remains highly relevant for modern readers. The novel examines how breakdowns in civil behavior beget violence and chaos, leading ordinary people to commit extraordinary crimes. Written in 1872, Dostoyevsky's cautionary tale explores the destructive forces of demagoguery and unbridled rhetoric. When one of the conspirators faces exposure, the gang's response results in a shocking orgy of bloodshed. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive Petrashevsky circle and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk (1846), made his name. Based on a real-life political assassination, the story unfolds in a fictional town in which Stavrogin, a power-hungry cynic, and Pyotr, a radical willing to go to any lengths for his ideals, take charge of a crew of anarchists, nihilists, and other politically minded outsiders. (59), (4,151) Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. Genre: Literary,Books,Fiction & Literature,Classics,Ī pair of self-styled revolutionaries and their followers plot to overthrow the Tsar and seize control of the government in Dostoyevsky's compelling tale of ideology and murder in 19th-century Russia.
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