The Possessed (The Devils)
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The Possessed, also known as The Devils, is Dostoyevsky's fierce novel of ideology, conspiracy, and spiritual disorder. In a provincial Russian town, charismatic radicals, restless intellectuals, and wounded idealists are drawn into a network of manipulation that turns abstract political dreams into violence. Stavrogin, Verkhovensky, Shatov, and Kirillov each carry a different form of rebellion, and the novel shows how ideas detached from moral responsibility can become destructive. Both political satire and psychological tragedy, The Possessed remains one of the sharpest literary portraits of fanaticism, nihilism, and the collapse of social trust.
The Possessed, also known as The Devils, is Dostoyevsky's fierce novel of ideology, conspiracy, and spiritual disorder. In a provincial Russian town, charismatic radicals, restless intellectuals, and wounded idealists are drawn into a network of manipulation that turns abstract political dreams i...
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