Demons: Formerly translated as The Possessed
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Demons: Formerly translated as The Possessed   -     By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear

Demons: Formerly translated as The Possessed

Random House Inc / 1995 / Paperback

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Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russia in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky concieved Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What he emerged with in 1872 was at once his darkest novel until The Brothers Karmazov and his most ferociously funny. For alongside its relentlessly escalating plot of conspiracy and assassination, Demons (which earlier translators eroneously titled The Possessed) is a blistering comedy of ideas run amok. And, like all of Dostoevsky's novels, it is also a riot of literary voices, whose profusion, energy, and variety are rendered wonderfully in this new English version by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, winners of the PEN Book-of-the-month Club Translation Prize.

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Title: Demons: Formerly translated as The Possessed
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 733
Vendor: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 1995
Dimensions: 8.01 X 5.25 X 1.58 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 9 ounces
ISBN: 0679734511
ISBN-13: 9780679734512
Stock No: WW34511

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Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.

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About the Translators

   Richard Pevear has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Albert Savinio, and Pavel Florensky, as well as two books of poetry.  He has received fellowships for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of the translation of The Brothers Karamazov. Larissa Volokhonsky was born in Leningrad.  She has translated the work of the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff.

   Pevear and Volokhonsky were awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for their version of The Brothers Karamazov. They are married and live in France

Editorial Reviews

"[An] admirable new translation of...Dostoevsky’s masterpiece." —New York Review of Books

"The merit in this edition of Demons resides in the technical virtuosity of the translators.... They capture the feverishly intense, personal explosions of activity and emotion that manifest themselves in Russian life." —New York Times Book Review

"Demons is the Dostoevsky novel for our age...[Pevear and Volokhonsky] have managed to capture and differentiate the characters’ many voices.... They come into their own when faced with Dostoevsky’s wonderfully quirky use of varied speech patterns…A capital job of restoration." —Los Angeles Times

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