The award-winning translators Richard Pevar And Larissa Volokhonsky contine their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with his novel, also known as The Possessed. Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor 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 murder in pre-revolutionary Russia-a novel that is rivalled only by The Brothers Karamazov as Dostoevsky's greatest.
