Ten minutes ago, I finished reading Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Demons. Thus, my impressions are raw, but I want to record them before I learn what the professional literati class has decreed about this book, ...

Dostoevsky’s “Demons” illustrates this historical process, and the best part of it is the satiric treatment of what Dostoevsky himself was in the 1840s, an idealistic liberal. The character who ...

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The wild-eyed dreamers and furtive schemers of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel “The Demons” don’t just leap off the page: they grab your lapels with white-knuckled fists and glare into your soul, ...