Reviews
I read it thoroughly once and enjoyed it, but I felt a bit uneasy, so I plan to read it thoroughly again. I think it is a masterpiece of classic literature worth reading multiple times.
A passionate narrative unfolding with unpredictable surprises and bizarre probabilities, and a sophisticated dissection of delicate and detailed human existence depicted as the sum of the psychology, speech, and thought patterns of individual characters facing specific situations. A great genius for whom the praise of justifying the existence of the Russian people is insufficient.
It seems that Russian novels only truly come alive after reading them two or three times. This is because... I simply cannot remember the names, so I end up losing my way while reading. Of course, even if I forget the names a few times in the middle, the plot development itself is so exciting that it remains enjoyable. The middle volume is thicker than the first, and the third volume is thicker than the middle. The third volume seems thicker because it includes two commentaries and a summary at
I have been thinking for a long time that I should read Dostoevsky's *The Last of the Three Kingdoms*, and I feel proud to finally have put a period on it.
“Ha” p170 "What? You say ideas have swallowed me?" "Yes." "So you mean I didn't swallow the ideas?" ㆍ “Ha” p429 Translator's Note: Unlike Stavrogin, who needs no one, those associated with him worship and love him as a god-like being and beg him to acknowledge them as his disciples. In particular, Shatov, the Slavic idealist; Kirillov, who opposes God and seeks to become God himself; and Pyotr, the nihilist, despite pursuing different ideas, claim that they are reflections of Stavrogin's soul
Classics are great.
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Evil spirit (lower)
The novel *Demons* by the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky has been published by Open Books with a new translation. The translator is Professor Park Hye-kyung of the Department of Russian Language and Literature at Hallym University, who has published papers such as "Analysis of the Doppelganger Theme in Dostoevsky's *Demons*." *Demons* is one of Dostoevsky's five major novels, along with *Crime and Punishment*, *The Brothers Karamazov*, *The Idiot*, and *The Adolescent*. Set against the backdrop of a small provincial town in Russia, the novel depicts the tragedy brought about by Western atheism and nihilism that swept through Russia, much like the demons possessing a herd of pigs in the Bible. Through the tragic events caused by the enigmatic young nobleman Nikolai Stavrogin and the members of the secret revolutionary organization surrounding him, the work delves deeply into the major topics of contemporary Russia—such as the relationship between the West and Russia, liberalism and nihilism, atheism and the concept of man-god, Slavophilism and Russian Orthodoxy, generational conflict, and the issues of salvation and atonement—as well as the themes Dostoevsky explored throughout his life. The direct impetus for the creation of this work was the real-life "Nechaev Affair" that occurred in Moscow in 1869. In this incident, Nechaev, a university student in Moscow, gathered several fellow students to form a radical secret revolutionary organization; when Ivanov, a student and member of the group, attempted to leave, Nechaev, along with the remaining members, murdered him and threw his body into a pond on campus. Shocked by this news, Dostoevsky conceived *Demons* using this incident as a motif, and the work was originally intended to be written as a *political pamphlet* to counter nihilists who subscribed to Western ideas.
Korean title: 악령(하)
Korean author: 표도르 도스또예프스끼
Korean publisher: 열린책들
ISBN-13: 9788932920139
Reviews
I read it thoroughly once and enjoyed it, but I felt a bit uneasy, so I plan to read it thoroughly again. I think it is a masterpiece of classic literature worth reading multiple times.
A passionate narrative unfolding with unpredictable surprises and bizarre probabilities, and a sophisticated dissection of delicate and detailed human existence depicted as the sum of the psychology, speech, and thought patterns of individual characters facing specific situations. A great genius for whom the praise of justifying the existence of the Russian people is insufficient.
It seems that Russian novels only truly come alive after reading them two or three times. This is because... I simply cannot remember the names, so I end up losing my way while reading. Of course, even if I forget the names a few times in the middle, the plot development itself is so exciting that it remains enjoyable. The middle volume is thicker than the first, and the third volume is thicker than the middle. The third volume seems thicker because it includes two commentaries and a summary at
I have been thinking for a long time that I should read Dostoevsky's *The Last of the Three Kingdoms*, and I feel proud to finally have put a period on it.
“Ha” p170 "What? You say ideas have swallowed me?" "Yes." "So you mean I didn't swallow the ideas?" ㆍ “Ha” p429 Translator's Note: Unlike Stavrogin, who needs no one, those associated with him worship and love him as a god-like being and beg him to acknowledge them as his disciples. In particular, Shatov, the Slavic idealist; Kirillov, who opposes God and seeks to become God himself; and Pyotr, the nihilist, despite pursuing different ideas, claim that they are reflections of Stavrogin's soul
Classics are great.
