Demons

35 hrs. 9 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrator Yury Zaborovsky

Description

“Demons,” like other works by Dostoevsky, strikes with its specific deep philosophy. Watching the growing mood of rebellion and the play-acting at revolution, the author wanted to warn his contemporaries about the approaching threats of social upheavals—bloody and senseless. But his warning was not heard...

And indeed, time confirmed the writer’s correctness—and not just once. Bloody revolution and Stalin’s and Hitler’s despotic regimes were exact and frightening confirmations of the ideas about what awaits a society where “party” morality stands above human morality. Using as an epigraph to the novel an Evangelical text, the author also shows a metaphysical version of the described events.

In the novel, it is not only about the “wrong” organization of society—but also about a person’s soul, about what threatens it with decay and death. Souls must be healed. For different theories about rebuilding the world can lead to spiritual blindness and madness in the event of losing the ability to distinguish good from evil.