Los Demonios

fyodor dostoyevsky

Un crítico contemporáneo de Fedor Dostoievski calificó Los Demonios de `libro de la gran ira´, definiendo así la carga emocional con que fue escrito. Hoy despojada la obra de la anécdota inmediata, queda vigente su sentido profético: los razonamientos de los personajes se asemejan extraordinariamente a los que sirvieron para justificar ideológicamente los totalitarismos del siglo XX.

Genres classicsfictionrussiarussian literatureliteraturephilosophynovels19th centuryclassic literaturepolitics

654 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1872

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Format: 654 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2004 by Ediciones Libertador
ISBN: 9789871150106
ASIN: 9871150105
Language: Spanish; Castilian

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Stepan Trofimovitch Verhovensky

Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky is the philosopher and intellectual (though far more so in the image he has created for himself in the novels provincial backwater than in reality) who is partly to blame for the revolutionary ideas that fuel the dest...
Nikolai Vsevolodovich Stavrogin

Nikolai Vsevolodovich Stavrogin is the central character of the novel but a highly ambiguous figure and often an observer or secondary participant in the novels key events compared to the younger Verkhovensky, who drives much of the action and repea...
Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky

Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky is the son of Stepan and the driver of the mayhem that ultimately engulfs the town. He is the effectively abandoned son of Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky and a representation of the deterioration from idealistic reformer of...
Lizaveta Nikolaevna

Lizaveta Nikolaevna is a vivacious local beauty who becomes engaged to Mavriky Nikolaevitch, but is fatally attracted to Stavrogin....
Alexei Nilych Kirilov

lexei Nilych Kirillov is an engineer. He is a thorough nihilist, and has decided his own will is the ultimate reality. He means to commit suicide, and Pyotr Stepanovich means to use his suicide to further his revolutionary purposes. He is a "thoroughgoing...
Shigalyov

Shigalyov is a social theorist and member of Pyotr Stepanovichs revolutionary "group of five." He has complicated plans for the future of society that the rest of the small radical cell arent much interested in, but in a grim foreshadowing of ...