Dostoyevski demons6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The plot centres around a gang of revolutionary students, whose rejection of official Russia in favour of revolutionary ideas leads to their downfall and the corruption and degradation of the entire community in which they live. But despite being a chaotic jumble, the novel does come together in the end. It is arguably too long, with too many characters, all striving to be memorable. It doesn’t flow as well as Crime and Punishment, the other Dostoevsky book I’ve read. The first time I read Demons, much of the plot flew over my head. Forster and his Passage to India – the two novels that were assigned to us for study and examination. It took several re-readings for me to appreciate the poetic genius of Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness, such that I now rate him over E.M. A conviction that has been drummed into me from my time doing A-Level English Literature is that you can never truly ‘get’ a novel until you have read it more than once. I have just finished reading Dostoevsky’s Demons for the second time. ![]()
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