Political fiction Philosophical fiction Psychological fiction Good vs. Evil Radicalism Nihilism Faith Morality Manipulation
The Devils, also kwon as Demons, is a novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky first published in 1871. This social and political satire is considered one of Dostoevsky's masterpieces.
The book is a social critique of the consequences of the growing political and moral nihilism in Russia in the 1860s. The setting of the book is an invented city, which is plunged into chaos after a revolutionary attempt carried out by Piotr Verkhovenski.
The book is narrated by a minor character, a close friend and confidant of the protagonist Verkhovenski. This narrator, Anton Lavrentyevich, is a local official who chronicles the revolutionary events that have occurred in his town and of which he has a great deal of information and detail.
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Russian novelist, philosopher, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. His work explored human psychology in the troubled political, social, ...
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