Devils - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Category: Classic
Narrator: George Guidall
Tags: Classic, Historical Fiction, Adults
Release Date:03-20-13 Publisher: Recorded Books Length: 28 hrs and 3 mins, Edited and translated by Michael R. Katz Oxford Worlds Classics, The third of Dostoevskys five major novels, Devils (1871-2), also known as The Possessed or Demons, is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray that follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town., The title refers to the infestation of foreign political and philosophical ideas that swept Russia in the second half of the 19th century. Pevear writes in the introduction, These demons, then, are ideas, that legion of -isms that came to Russia from the West: idealism, rationalism, empiricism, materialism, utilitarianism, positivism, socialism, anarchism, nihilism, and, underlying them all, atheism. Dostoevsky, taking as his starting point the political chaos around him at the time, constructs an elaborate morality tale in which the people of a provincial town turn against
