'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
| ISBN: | 9780099140016 |
| Publication date: | 15th September 1994 |
| Author: | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky |
| Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 733 pages |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Satirical fiction and parodies Narrative theme: Politics Narrative theme: Social issues Fiction in translation |