Demons Introduction by Joseph Frank

by Dostoevsky, Fyodor; Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa; Frank, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780375411229
• ISBN10: 0375411224
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-24
• Publisher: Everyman's Library

Summary

The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, also known as The Possessed. Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in prerevolutionary Russia--a novel that is rivalled only by The Brothers Karamazov as Dostoevsky's greatest.

Author Biography

About the Translators

   Richard Pevear has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Albert Savinio, and Pavel Florensky, as well as two books of poetry.  He has received fellowships for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of the translation of The Brothers Karamazov. Larissa Volokhonsky was born in Leningrad.  She has translated the work of the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff.

   Pevear and Volokhonsky were awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for their version of The Brothers Karamazov. They are married and live in France

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Select Bibliography	xxxii
Chronology	xxxiv
Translator's Note	xli
PART ONE
Instead of an Introduction	7	(33)
Prince Harry. Matchmaking	40	(40)
Someone Else's Sins	80	(45)
The Lame Girl	125	(34)
The Wise Serpent	159	(50)
PART TWO
Night	209	(48)
Night (Continued)	257	(25)
The Duel	282	(13)
All in Expectation	295	(23)
Before the Fete	318	(25)
Pyotr Stepanovich Bustles About	343	(45)
With Our People	388	(25)
Ivan the Tsarevich	413	(11)
Stepan Trofimovich Perquisitioned	424	(11)
Filibusters. A Fatal Morning	435	(26)
PART THREE
The Fete. First Part	461	(29)
The End of the Fete	490	(29)
A Finished Romance	519	(22)
The Last Decision	541	(24)
A Traveler	565	(32)
A Toilsome Night	597	(33)
The Last Peregrination of Stepan Trofimovich	630	(36)
Conclusion	666	(15)
Appendix At Tikhon's	681	(34)
Notes	715