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Review ''One of the most outstanding and influential writers of modern literature.'' --The Reader's Encyclopedia ''The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts which hiss and boil and suck us in. They are composed purely and wholly of the stuff of the soul. Against our wills we are drawn in, whirled round, blinded, suffocated, and at the same time filled with a giddy rapture.'' --Virginia Woolf About the Author FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart had a profound and universal influence on the twentieth-century novel. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. From Elizabeth Dalton’s Introduction to The Possessed The Possessed is the greatest novel ever written about the politics of revolution. It prefigures the political novels of Conrad, Malraux, and Koestler, as well as the work of Camus. Published in 1871, Dostoevsky’s novel foretold with uncanny prescience events that would occur almost fifty years later during the Bolshevik Revolution and the Communist tyranny that followed. Its “possessed” characters, unleashed on a sleepy provincial town, wreak destruction as if in the grip of demonic possession, thereby foretelling what will happen in real life when, as one of them says, “Russia will be overwhelmed with darkness, the earth will weep for its old gods.” The novel’s relevance, however, is not limited to Russia and its revolution. With its cast of idealistic murderers and suicides, seductive madmen and glamorous fanatics, The Possessed is a novel for our time as well. The political theme is interwoven with a tragic love story and framed in a chronicle of provincial life rich in comic characters and incidents. In the end, however, everything leads to the central concerns of all Dostoevsky’s work: his tortured debate with himself over Christianity and the

existence of God, and his penetrating analysis of the psyche, of both its ecstatic visions of harmony and its darkest and most perverse impulses. Freud, who claimed that creative writers were the true discoverers of the unconscious, drew his own conception of the unconscious partly from his reading of Dostoevsky, whom he considered the greatest of all novelists. The inner life of the mind has been the subject of modern literature as well as of psychoanalysis. The representation of the psyche by the great modern writers—among them Joyce, Proust, Gide, Woolf, Kafka, Faulkner, and Beckett—owes a great deal to Dostoevsky’s dissections of the minds of Stavrogin, Kirillov, and the other heroes and antiheroes of his novels. Although The Possessed developed far beyond Dostoevsky’s original intention, it began as a polemic. In a letter of March 1870, he wrote, “What I’m writing is a tendentious piece; I want to state my opinions fervently. (The Nihilists and Westernizers will start yelling about me that I’m a reactionary!) But to hell with them—I’ll state all my opinions down to the last word” (Complete Letters, vol. 3, p. 246; see “For Further Reading”). As installments began appearing in the Russian Herald, a Petersburg monthly, The Possessed did indeed arouse furious controversy: The leftwingers, the “Nihilists and Westernizers,” saw it as a slanderous attack, and the right-wing Slavophils, the defenders of the monarchy and the Russian Orthodox Church, took it as an unqualified endorsement of their views. During the Communist era, the novel continued to be read as a political document, a reactionary attack on socialism, and for nearly forty years no separate edition could be printed, although it was available in an academic edition of Dostoevsky’s collected works. Those who managed to read it, and who were themselves living through the era of arrests, trials, imprisonments, and executions it foretold, wondered how its author could have imagined so fully what had not yet happened. In fact, The Possessed was based partly on real events. The immediate stimulus was the “Nechayev Affair” of 1869. A student named Ivanov, a member of a revolutionary group called the People’s Avengers, was murdered by his fellow conspirators at the instigation of their leader, Sergey Nechayev, who convinced them that Ivanov was about to denounce them to the authorities. Dostoevsky, then living in Dresden, read the newspaper accounts of this case and used it as the point of departure for a depiction of the political and intellectual atmosphere of Russia in the late 1860s. An even more important source of the novel, however, was his own experience of conspiracy twenty years earlier as a member of the Petrashevsky Circle. Like the “quintet” in The Possessed, the Petrashevsky conspirators were trying to acquire a secret printing press on which to produce anti-government leaflets, a capital offense in Tsarist Russia. In 1849 they were arrested and condemned to death, led onto the scaffold to be shot, and at the last minute reprieved and sent to Siberia. Dostoevsky’s background was far from revolutionary. His father, a military physician, was descended from impoverished minor Lithuanian nobility. Konstantin Mochulsky, in Dostoevsky: His Life and Work, describes the father as “a man of extremely difficult temperament, sullen, contentious, suspicious, . . . subject to attacks of depression. His personality was a fusion of cruelty and sensibility, piety and avarice” (p. 8). The family—parents and seven children, of whom Fyodor Mikhailovitch was the second—lived in straitened circumstances in a three-room house on the grounds of the Maryinsky military hospital in Moscow. Dostoevsky received, nonetheless, an excellent education, reading widely in Russian, English, and European literature. At his father’s insistence, he was sent in 1838 to the academy of military engineering in Petersburg, where he was miserable.

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Review ''One of the most outstanding and influential writers of modern literature.'' --The Reader's Encyclopedia ''The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts which hiss and boil and suck us in. They are composed purely and wholly of the stuff of the soul. Against our wills we are drawn in, whirled round, blinded, suffocated, and at the same time filled with a giddy rapture.'' --Virginia Woolf About the Author FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart had a profound and universal influence on the twentieth-century novel. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. From Elizabeth Dalton’s Introduction to The Possessed The Possessed is the greatest novel ever written about the politics of revolution. It prefigures the political novels of Conrad, Malraux, and Koestler, as well as the work of Camus. Published in 1871, Dostoevsky’s novel foretold with uncanny prescience events that would occur almost fifty years later during the Bolshevik Revolution and the Communist tyranny that followed. Its “possessed” characters, unleashed on a sleepy provincial town, wreak destruction as if in the grip of demonic possession, thereby foretelling what will happen in real life when, as one of them says, “Russia will be overwhelmed with darkness, the earth will weep for its old gods.” The novel’s relevance, however, is not limited to Russia and its revolution. With its cast of idealistic murderers and suicides, seductive madmen and glamorous fanatics, The Possessed is a novel for our time as well.

The political theme is interwoven with a tragic love story and framed in a chronicle of provincial life rich in comic characters and incidents. In the end, however, everything leads to the central concerns of all Dostoevsky’s work: his tortured debate with himself over Christianity and the existence of God, and his penetrating analysis of the psyche, of both its ecstatic visions of harmony and its darkest and most perverse impulses. Freud, who claimed that creative writers were the true discoverers of the unconscious, drew his own conception of the unconscious partly from his reading of Dostoevsky, whom he considered the greatest of all novelists. The inner life of the mind has been the subject of modern literature as well as of psychoanalysis. The representation of the psyche by the great modern writers—among them Joyce, Proust, Gide, Woolf, Kafka, Faulkner, and Beckett—owes a great deal to Dostoevsky’s dissections of the minds of Stavrogin, Kirillov, and the other heroes and antiheroes of his novels. Although The Possessed developed far beyond Dostoevsky’s original intention, it began as a polemic. In a letter of March 1870, he wrote, “What I’m writing is a tendentious piece; I want to state my opinions fervently. (The Nihilists and Westernizers will start yelling about me that I’m a reactionary!) But to hell with them—I’ll state all my opinions down to the last word” (Complete Letters, vol. 3, p. 246; see “For Further Reading”). As installments began appearing in the Russian Herald, a Petersburg monthly, The Possessed did indeed arouse furious controversy: The leftwingers, the “Nihilists and Westernizers,” saw it as a slanderous attack, and the right-wing Slavophils, the defenders of the monarchy and the Russian Orthodox Church, took it as an unqualified endorsement of their views. During the Communist era, the novel continued to be read as a political document, a reactionary attack on socialism, and for nearly forty years no separate edition could be printed, although it was available in an academic edition of Dostoevsky’s collected works. Those who managed to read it, and who were themselves living through the era of arrests, trials, imprisonments, and executions it foretold, wondered how its author could have imagined so fully what had not yet happened. In fact, The Possessed was based partly on real events. The immediate stimulus was the “Nechayev Affair” of 1869. A student named Ivanov, a member of a revolutionary group called the People’s Avengers, was murdered by his fellow conspirators at the instigation of their leader, Sergey Nechayev, who convinced them that Ivanov was about to denounce them to the authorities. Dostoevsky, then living in Dresden, read the newspaper accounts of this case and used it as the point of departure for a depiction of the political and intellectual atmosphere of Russia in the late 1860s. An even more important source of the novel, however, was his own experience of conspiracy twenty years earlier as a member of the Petrashevsky Circle. Like the “quintet” in The Possessed, the Petrashevsky conspirators were trying to acquire a secret printing press on which to produce anti-government leaflets, a capital offense in Tsarist Russia. In 1849 they were arrested and condemned to death, led onto the scaffold to be shot, and at the last minute reprieved and sent to Siberia. Dostoevsky’s background was far from revolutionary. His father, a military physician, was descended from impoverished minor Lithuanian nobility. Konstantin Mochulsky, in Dostoevsky: His Life and Work, describes the father as “a man of extremely difficult temperament, sullen, contentious, suspicious, . . . subject to attacks of depression. His personality was a fusion of cruelty and sensibility, piety and avarice” (p. 8). The family—parents and seven children, of whom Fyodor Mikhailovitch was the second—lived in straitened circumstances in a three-room house on the grounds of the Maryinsky military hospital in Moscow. Dostoevsky received, nonetheless, an excellent education, reading widely in Russian, English, and European literature. At his father’s insistence, he was sent in 1838 to the academy of military engineering in Petersburg, where he

was miserable.

Most helpful customer reviews 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Remarkable Foreshadowing of the Russian Revolution By ironman96 I'm a big fan of Dostoevsky so I looked forward to reading "Demons." Although you'll recognize it as one of his works, it's quite different than Dostoevsky's other novels. In "Demons," Dostoevsky uses the storyline and characters as a means to describe and critique the pre-revolutionary ideas taking hold of Russia in the 1870s. The book shows both amazing insight into the ideas as well as the individuals making up the movement. While some of the storyline is dense and hard to get through, the genius of the book's main thesis and accomplishment deserve 5 stars (I read the Constance Garnett translation which was fine). Although this book is not for everyone, it will be especially of interest to those with a political and philosophical bent. Decades before the Communist Revolution in Russia, Dostoevsky expertly described the movement that planted the seeds of the Communist Revolution. The movement was one of immense pride, arrogance, selfishness, and hate. Their hate was for God and for men. As others have said, they loved "Mankind" but hate people. All left-wing revolutions have had similar ideas at their root. The title "Demons" was taken from the passage of the New Testament where Jesus casts the demons out of a man. The demons then ask Jesus to be driven into a nearby herd of pigs which then run off a cliff into the sea. Dostoevsky considered Russia to be like a man possessed by the demons of the revolutionary movement. His hope was that the demons would be driven out of Russia and into the pigs and the sea. His foreshadowing of Russian history decades into the future was chilling. Here were a few poignant quotes from the book: "He suggests a system of spying. Every member of the society spies on the others, and its his duty to inform against them. Every one belongs to all and all to every one. All are slaves and equal in their slavery." "He suggests as a final solution of the question the division of mankind into two unequal parts. One-tenth enjoys absolute liberty and unbounded power over the other nine-tenths. The others have to give up all individuality and become, so to speak, a herd..." "If there is no God, then I am God...If God exists, all is His will and from His will I cannot escape. If not, its all my will..." This novel is unfortunately as relatable today as it was in 1870s Russia--an important work of history and literature. 11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Another Dostoyevsky Masterpiece By Bill R. Moore Fyodor Dostoyevesky, perhaps the greatest novelist of all-time, has a canon of mostly very long books delving deeply into dark psychological corners. He shed long-dormant light on such subjects as the conscience, madness, the existence of God, family and criminal psychology, etc. Similarly,

The Possessed explores the tendency of people, particularly young ones, toward nihilism. Dostoyevsky shows nihilism's inherent hollowness, that it always leads to the same place in the end. As Don Henley once sang, "It's another hollow rebellion/As rebellions often are/Just another raging tempest/In a jar." Many have observed how Dostoyevsky foresaw the philosophy of Nietzsche, yet for all their darkness and social criticism, many overlook the fact that both, in essence, affirm life. For proof, one need only to look at the fate of characters who deny life. To both Dostoyevsky and Nietzsche, it is not only wrong to live merely for a higher power or hope of eternal reward but also to live for an "ism": atheism, idealism, anarchism, nihilism, etc. This is Dostoyevsky's attempt to strike out at the materialism infesting Russia and to break out of negative modes of thinking. To paraphrase his famous letter, modern nihilists do not deny the existence of God; that is done. They deny with all their might God's creation. Pity the poor revolutionary who tries to incite a rebellion while denying the very means he must use to do so. Neil Peart once wrote, "Changes aren't permanent/But change is." Anything that does not change becomes stagnant, but we must remember to affirm life. Thankfully we have Dostoyevsky to remind us. This brilliant novel also explores other subjects: the responsibility of one generation for the next, the responsibility of teachers for students, and above all, the responsibility of philosophers for their ideas. It is a must for any reader of classics or Russian literature. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A magnificent novel By petronmb Circumstances of Dostoevsky's writing of this novel--as subscription and over a lengthy period of time, typical of the 19th century--have created some unevenness in style. However, the overall effect of the novel is magnificent, a novel of all novels, and it soon overcomes its limitations so I give it the highest rating. In fact I could give it a ten star if that were available. Dostoevsky's ability is amazing and enormous especially given his personal life of troubles and that he wasn't a fastidious or meticulous stylist. Instead he provides an incredible depth of character development and of the surrounding society for his characters. In this respect he resembles Shakespeare, as with the well-known "He is the Shakespeare of novelists." This work slows down or falters (for me) only in its second hundred pages, following its wonderful opening 100 pages. The charming Dostoevsky satirist abounds in this long novel, highly enjoyable, and he is the only novelist I know of who has managed to combine two very different forms, which are very difficult to combine--satire and tragedy. Brilliant work plus highly enjoyable. See all 6 customer reviews...

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