By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN-10: 1615340602
ISBN-13: 9781615340606
The Possessed (In Russian: Бесы, tr. Besy), additionally translated because the Devils or Demons, is an 1872 novel via Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Possessed is an incredibly political e-book, and is a testimonial of lifestyles in Imperial Russia within the overdue nineteenth century. because the innovative democrats start to upward thrust in Russia, diverse ideologies start to collide. Dostoevsky casts a serious eye on either the left-wing idealists, exposing their principles and ideological origin as demonic, and the conservative establishment's ineptitude in facing these rules and their social outcomes. this kind of highbrow conservativism tied to the Slavophil stream of Dostoevsky's day, is obvious to have persisted on into its glossy manifestation in contributors like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Dostoevsky's novels concentrating on the concept that utopias and positivist rules, in being utilitarian, have been unrealistic and unobtainable. The booklet has 5 fundamental ideological characters: Verkhovensky, Shatov, Stavrogin, Stepan Trofimovich, and Kirilov. via their philosophies, Dostoevsky describes the political chaos visible in 19th-Century Russia.
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It all springs from the charming, cultured, whimsical idleness of our gentry! I'm ready to repeat it for thirty thousand years. We don't know how to live by our own labour. And as for the fuss they're making now about the 'dawn' of some sort of public opinion, has it so suddenly dropped from heaven without any warning? How is it they don't understand that before we can have an opinion of our own we must have work, our own work, our own initiative in things, our own experience. Nothing is to be gained for nothing.
Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch shrugged his shoulders and went away. All this was very stupid, to say nothing of its gross indecency— A calculated and premeditated indecency as it seemed at first sight—and therefore a premeditated and utterly brutal insult to our whole society. So it was taken to be by every one. We began by promptly and unanimously striking young Stavrogin's name off the list of club members. Then it was decided to send an. ” It was added with angry resentment that” a law might be found to control even Mr.
And then something utterly incredible, though on the other side only too unmistakable, took place. The old man suddenly felt that, instead of telling him some interesting secret, Nikolay had seized the upper part of his ear between his teeth and was nipping it rather hard. He shuddered, and breath failed him. ” he moaned mechanically in a voice not his own. Alyosha and the colonel had not yet grasped the situation, besides they couldn't see, and fancied up to the end that the two were whispering together; and yet the old man's desperate face alarmed them.
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