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Dostoevsky saw Russia's growing suicide rate as a symptom of the decline of religious faith and the concomitant disintegration of social institutions like the family. [67] Self-destruction as a result of atheism or loss of faith is a major theme in Demons and further recalls the metaphor of the demon-possessed swine in the epigraph. [68]
Dostoevsky observed that "the whole of Russia is talking about my Poor Folk". [33] As soon as he read the manuscript for Poor Folk , Belinsky named it Russia's first "social novel". [ 34 ] Alexander Herzen praised the book in his essay "About the Progress of Revolutionary Ideas in Russia", noting the book's " socialistic tendencies and ...
Portrait of Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1872 painted by Vasily Perov. The themes in the writings of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky (frequently transliterated as "Dostoyevsky"), which consist of novels, novellas, short stories, essays, epistolary novels, poetry, [1] spy fiction [2] and suspense, [3] include suicide, poverty, human manipulation, and morality.
Magarshack was born in Riga, in present-day Latvia, at the time part of the Russian Empire.In 1920, he moved to the United Kingdom in order to study.. After graduating from University College London with a degree in English Language and Literature in 1924, Magarshack attempted to make a career out of journalism, and then out of writing crime fiction, neither of which were successful.
Lizaveta is the most common character name in Dostoevsky's works, and many of these characters mirror Liza's fate or otherwise reference "Poor Liza". For instance, Liza Tushina in Demons similarly falls into sin, is forced apart from her beloved, and dies tragically, and Liza Dolgorukaya in The Adolescent was originally supposed to drown ...
Narrated by a young novelist, Vanya (Ivan Petrovich), who has just released his first novel (which bears an obvious resemblance to Dostoevsky's own first novel, Poor Folk), it consists of two gradually converging plot lines. One deals with Vanya's close friend and former love object, Natasha, who has left her family to live with her new lover ...
The Demons may refer to: Demons (Dostoevsky novel), an 1872 novel by Russian Fyodor Dostoevsky, also translated The Demons; The Demons (Doderer novel), a 1956 novel by Heimito von Doderer; The Demons, a French-Portuguese horror film directed by Jesús Franco; The Demons, a Canadian drama film directed by Philippe Lesage
The book was a major critical success in the German-speaking world. Critics compared it to the works of Dostoevsky, Dante Alighieri, Leo Tolstoy and Honoré de Balzac.The critic Klaus Nüchtern described its scale and structure as a development of the architecture of Gothic cathedrals. [1]