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Demons — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Demons

Бесы

Retrato de Fiódor Dostoievski, por Vasili Perov
byFyodor Dostoevsky

Inspired by the murder of the student Ivanov by Sergei Nechayev's revolutionary group (1869), it portrays a provincial town shaken by a nihilist conspiracy. Beside the satire of the liberals of the 1840s (Stepan Verkhovensky) and their revolutionary sons (Pyotr Verkhovensky) stand Kirillov, who wants to kill himself to become God, and Stavrogin, the man who can neither believe nor stop believing. The chapter 'At Tikhon's', with Stavrogin's confession, was rejected by the editor and published in 1922.

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English

  • Demons — Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Demons

    Penguin Classics, 2008

    Translation: Robert A. Maguire

    ISBN 9780141441412

    Ed. Ronald Meyer; introducción de Robert L. Belknap

  • Devils — Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Devils

    Oxford World's Classics, 1999

    Translation: Michael R. Katz

    ISBN 9780192838292

  • Demons — Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Demons

    Vintage Classics, 1995

    Translation: Richard Pevear y Larissa Volokhonsky

    ISBN 9780679734512

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Русский

  • Бесы

    Русский вестник, 1871

    Primera publicación por entregas (1871–1872)

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Sources

  • «Fyodor Dostoevsky bibliography», Wikipedia en inglés (lista destacada, con primeras ediciones, revistas y primeros traductores) y «Библиография Фёдора Достоевского», Wikipedia en ruso.

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