Ivanov, Viacheslav. Female Characters in Dostoevsky's Pre-Siberian Work Rado Pribić, Lafayette College Although Dostoevsky's pre- and post-Siberian novels and shorter narratives have often been thoroughly investigated, no comprehensive study has yet been written on the female characters of his work. An extremely political book, Demons is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. INTRODUCTION. Quotes are taken from Constance Garnett’s translation (Project Gutenberg), as … The names used most frequently are in bold. Main Characters.

Main Characters Russian Names: The middle names of all male characters end in "vitch" and of all female characters in "ovna."

A spoiler-free list of characters in Demons/The Devils/The Possessed, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky by look i have opinions. Though titled The Possessed in the initial English translation, Dostoevsky scholars and later translations favour the titles The Devils or Demons. BOOK I. A spoiler-free list of characters in Demons/The Devils/The Possessed, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky by look i have opinions.
For foreigners, it's helpful to keep a list of the characters' names and roles in order to follow their intrigues as they appear and disappear in this story. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (/ ˌ d ɒ s t ə ˈ j ɛ f s k i, ˌ d ʌ s-/; Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, tr. In The Possessed, like much of the rest of Dostoevsky novels, Russian women are the last line of defense in the battle against secularism, materialism, rationalism, and individualism. The Best Books by Fyodor Dostoyevsky You Should Read "Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky" by Vasily Perov (1872) | via WikiCommons . Russian Names: The middle names of all male characters end in "vitch" and of all female characters in "ovna. Dostoevsky depicts a radical group that desires to overthrow the government and undermine the Russian church.
Holquist’s discussion of The Possessed highlights Stavrogin’s struggle to resist group pressures and to assert himself. Or, at least, as close to being free from spoilers as I can manage while still giving some description of the characters and their relationships. Dostoevsky has a rare gift of staging scenes with many crazy characters getting to the bottom of everything, and these Devils are his perfect study of corruption in the midst of society. Dostoevsky expended considerable effort on the compositional problem, finally dropping the term "narrator" (rasskazchik) for "chronicler" (khroniker) as the figure became clear to him and his function fixed. Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, IPA: [ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ dəstɐˈjɛfskʲɪj] ; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. BOOK III . Except for Victor Terras' book, The Young Dostoevsky, (1) which includes a chapter entitled "The Young Dostoevsky …

"This simply means "son of" or "daughter of" the father whose first name is converted into their middle names. The book, also known in English as The Devils and The Demons , is a reflection of Dostoyevsky’s belief that revolutionists possessed the soul of Russia and that, unless exorcised by a renewed faith in Orthodox Christianity and a pure nationalism , they would drive his country over the precipice .