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Demons
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novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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- Author
- Dan Brown
- First published
- 2000
- Editions
- 170
- Subjects
- heparin, ambigrams, antimatter, Freemasons, Swiss Guard, Murder, Investigation, Women scientists
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Key facts
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Original title
- Бѣсы
- Translator
- Constance Garnett (1916), David Magarshack (1954), Andrew R Macandrew (1962), Michael R. Katz (1992), Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (1995), Robert A. Maguire (2008), Roger Cockrell (2018)
- Language
- Russian
- Genre
- Philosophical novel , Political novel , Anti-nihilistic novel , Psychological novel , Satirical novel
- Publication date
- 1871–72
- Publication place
- Russia
- Preceded by
- The Idiot
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Wikidata facts
- Read free · Project Gutenberg
- #8117
- Instance of
- literary work
- Named after
- bies
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Country of origin
- Russian Empire
- Followed by
- Bobok
- Follows
- The Eternal Husband
- Narrative location
- Russian Empire
- Image
- The first edition of Dostoevsky's novel Demons Petersburg 1873.JPG
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- copyright status
- public domain
- publication date
- 1872-00-00
- title
- Бѣсы
- inception
- 1870-00-00
- Commons category
- Demons (Dostoyevsky)
- language of work or name
- Russian
- place of publication
- Russian Empire
- number of parts of this work
- 23
- form of creative work
- novel
- first line
- Приступая к описанию недавних и столь странных событий, происшедших в нашем, доселе ничем не отличавшемся городе, я принужден, по неумению моему, начать несколько издалека, а именно некоторыми биографическими подробностями о талантливом и многочтимом Степане Трофимовиче Верховенском.
- different from
- Possessed
- translator
- Constance Garnett
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Encyclopedic overview
Demons (Russian: Бесы, romanized: Besy, IPA: [ˈbʲe.sɨ]; sometimes also called The Possessed or The Devils) is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1871–72. It is considered one of the four masterworks written by Dostoevsky after his return from Siberian exile, along with Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880).
Demons is a social and political satire, a psychological drama, and a large-scale tragedy. Joyce Carol Oates has described it as "Dostoevsky's most confused and violent novel, and his most satisfactorily 'tragic' work." According to Ronald Hingley, it is Dostoevsky's "greatest onslaught on Nihilism", and "one of humanity's most impressive achievements—perhaps even its supreme achievement—in the art of prose fiction."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Demons” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.