Demons: A Novel in Three Parts

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Demons: A Novel in Three Parts

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In 1855, Dostoyevsky met a woman named Maria Dmitrievna and fell in love. Dostoyevsky was given leave to marry her although, as a convict he remained under police surveillance for the rest of his life. The marriage was an unhappy one and the couple lived apart for most of it. Dostoevsky died in 1881 following a series of pulmonary hemorrhages. Many thousands of mourners attended his funeral. His epitaph reads:

Frank, Joseph (2010). Dostoevsky A Writer in his Time. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691128191.Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky is the son of Stepan Trofimovich and the principal driving force of the mayhem that ultimately engulfs the town. The father and son are a representation of the aetiological connection Dostoevsky perceived between the liberal idealists of the 1840s and the nihilistic revolutionaries of the 1860s. [33] The character of Pyotr Stepanovich was inspired by the revolutionary Sergey Nechayev, in particular the methods described in his manifesto Catechism of a Revolutionary. [34] In the Catechism revolutionaries are encouraged to "aid the growth of calamity and every evil, which must at last exhaust the patience of the people and force them into a general uprising." [35] Verkhovensky's murder of Shatov in the novel was based on Nechayev's murder of Ivanov. [36] In a fit of mental delusion, Marya accuses Nikolai of being an imposter who was sent to kill her. She demands that he tell her what he has done with her "Prince". In his anger, Nikolai pushes Marya before storming out of the house. Fedka stops Nikolai again and offers his help and Nikolai slams him against a wall before stopping and continuing on his way. Fedka follows and Nikolai stops abruptly, laughing as he empties the contents of his wallet onto the man's face and walks away. In 1845, he completed his first novel, "Poor Folk" and the novel was a commercial success, being described as Russia's first "social novel". After resigning his military career, Dostoyevsky began writing full time and published his second novel, "The Double" in 1846. It was during this time that he discovered and became involved in socialism. "The Double" was not as well received in the press and Dostoyevsky began suffering from frequent health issues. Instead of belief in God, Stavrogin has rationality, intellect, self-reliance, and egoism, but the spiritual longing and sensual ardour of his childhood, over-stimulated by his teacher Stepan Trofimovich, has never left him. [59] [60] Unfettered by fear or morality, his life has become a self-centred experiment and a heartless quest to overcome the torment of his growing ennui. [61] The most striking manifestation of his dilemma is in the dialogue with Tikhon, where we find him, perhaps for the only time, truthfully communicating his inner state. In this dialogue there is an alternation in his speech between the stern, worldly voice of rational self-possession and the vulnerable, confessional voice of the lost and suffering soul. [62] [63]

In the aftermath, Pyotr Stepanovich (who was mysteriously absent from the reading) seeks to persuade a traumatized Julia Mikhaylovna that it wasn't as bad as she thinks and that it is essential for her to attend the ball. He also lets her know that the town is ringing with the news of another scandal: Lizaveta Nikolaevna has left her home and fiancé and gone off to Skvoreshniki with Stavrogin. The prehistory of Fyodor Dostoevsky's sixth novel is a crime that occurred in November 1869 in Moscow, followed by a lawsuit, which caused a great resonance in society. Members of the revolutionary circle of Nechaev killed a student Ivanov. The reason was Ivanov's desire to break with the secret society. In the press many documents of a loud process were published, including the Catechism of a Revolutionary, in which any evil and crime was justified if it was committed for the benefit of the revolution.Dostoevsky spent most of the 1860s in western Europe, immersing himself in the European culture that he believed was encroaching on Russia—an issue he explores in Notes from Underground. These years in Europe were a difficult time for Dostoevsky, as he struggled with poverty, epilepsy, and an addiction to gambling. The publication of Crime and Punishment (1866), however, brought him a reversal of fortune, earning him popular and critical success and rescuing him from financial disaster. His later novel The Brothers Karamazov (1880) brought him further critical success. Based on the materials of this case Dostoevsky had the idea of a new novel. In 1871 - 1872 the "Demons" were published in the magazine "Russky Vestnik". The society took the new novel coolly, and some critics did declare the work "slander" and "delirium." Over time the situation has changed little. Most supporters of the Russian revolutionary movement perceived “Demons” as an evil caricature of their ideas. Such a reputation prevented the wide popularity of the work. Unlike in Russia Western culture appreciated the social and moral depth of the novel. There became clear the prophecy of Dostoevsky's ideas, his desire to show the world the danger of radical revolutionary and atheistic ideas. The writer expressed the depth of alienation to his characters in the title and epigraph taken from the poem of the same name by Pushkin. Who is the main "demon" in the work?



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