Demons

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>>9083033
you might enjoy The Idiot more, but Demons is fantastic too

>>9083033
It's more political than the two you've read (and all his other books), but is just a good. Make sure you get an edition with the originally censored chapter "at Tikhon's". It makes one of the storylines make much more sense.

Alright lads, pick it up tomorrow

>>9083033
it's so riduclously fucking great, but you have to read it correctly i.e. if you are a leftist suspend all prejudice and understand it's a book written by a Orthodox Slavophil trying to present his argument against modernity and leftist radicals along with conservative Tories.

>>9083086
Should the censored chapter be read after finishing the novel or after chapter 7 of part 2? Does it still make sense within the published novel?

>biesy means demons
lol stupid american

>>9083342
Yeah it was originally there, then taken out by the censors. I'd read it where it was supposed to be.

>>9083033
He looks like Punished Venom Snake

>>9083354
This is what it actually means, eблaн.

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>>9083354
Penguin Books is British. The American version I used to have translated it as "The Possessed"

>>9083033
The Idiot is better

>>9083033

>nobody talks about this

WTF I hate liberals now

>>9083033
couldn't get used to the narration style, dostoevsky wrote better works in third person, and it's a crack up listening to someone take you aside and tell you all things dostoevskian.

>>9083370
The Possessed isn't as good of a translation. Pevear explains it in the forward. Basically, he thinks Dostoevsky meant the demonic ones to be the ideologies, the -isms, not the people representing them. Therefore, the people are not the weight of the title, the ideologies are, which are the demons that possess the leftists/atheists/socialists/anarchists/nihilists

>>9083342
read it after. The whole conception of the character changes, and if you read it last it kind of has this "woaaah" effect, whereas reading it where it should be I think would kind of make the rest of the book heavy with a disgusting feeling. He knew it was censored while he was serially publishing it, so he wrote the rest as if it wasn't mentioned I believe

It's one of Dostoevsky's truly devastating works. It's also pretty funny

>>9083894
>so he wrote the rest as if it wasn't mentioned I believe
Wrong

>>9083894
>He knew it was censored while he was serially publishing it, so he wrote the rest as if it wasn't mentioned I believe
>>9084134
>Wrong
So, which is it?