Devils - Dostojevski
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In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastophe as the subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers to the young radicals themselves and also to the materialistic ideas that possessed the minds of many thinking people in Russian society at the time. The satirical portraits of the revolutionaries, with their naivety, ludicrous single-mindedness and readiness for murder and destruction, might seem exaggerated - until we consider their all-too-recognisable descendants in the real world ever since. The key figure in the novel, however is beyond politics. Nikolay Stavrogin, another product of rationalism run wild, exercises his charisma with ruthless authority and total amorality. His unhappiness is accounted for when he confesses to a ghastly sexual crime - in a chapter long suppressed by the censor.
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2005Uitgever: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature696 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1840221283ISBN-13: 9781840221282Koop dit boek tweedehands
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[Auteur: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor] [Pagina's: 694] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Wordsworth Classics] [Jaar: 2005] [Titel: Devils]
