Demons
41 hrs. 32 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrator
Mikhail Pozdnyakov
Narrator
Mikhail Pozdnyakov
Description
“Demons” is one of Dostoevsky’s most controversial novels. Some see in it a prophetic pamphlet. Others see it as a kind of literary playground for testing various philosophical ideas. Still others call it an intricate psychological thriller.
The plot is based on a real event — the “Nechayev affair” that shook intellectual Russia in the 1870s. Revolutionaries, members of a small secret circle, killed their comrade who decided to “walk away from the cause.” However, Dostoevsky by no means aims to present a factually accurate account of what happened. His creation goes much deeper; in a private, singular Russian tragedy, he finds something universal and truly human.
In “Demons,” perhaps the record number of characters for a single novel appears — figures who have become milestones of world literature and philosophy. There is Nikolai Stavrogin, whom Nietzsche and Freud would later analyze so carefully. There is Kirillov, whose ideas influenced A. Camus and existentialist philosophy. And there is Pyotr Verkhovensky with his “cell” comrades, whose images are reinterpreted by Luchino Visconti and other cultural figures of the 20th century, as they examine a new “demonic” phenomenon — fascism.
The plot is based on a real event — the “Nechayev affair” that shook intellectual Russia in the 1870s. Revolutionaries, members of a small secret circle, killed their comrade who decided to “walk away from the cause.” However, Dostoevsky by no means aims to present a factually accurate account of what happened. His creation goes much deeper; in a private, singular Russian tragedy, he finds something universal and truly human.
In “Demons,” perhaps the record number of characters for a single novel appears — figures who have become milestones of world literature and philosophy. There is Nikolai Stavrogin, whom Nietzsche and Freud would later analyze so carefully. There is Kirillov, whose ideas influenced A. Camus and existentialist philosophy. And there is Pyotr Verkhovensky with his “cell” comrades, whose images are reinterpreted by Luchino Visconti and other cultural figures of the 20th century, as they examine a new “demonic” phenomenon — fascism.
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