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[Demons] [By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor] [September, 1994]
Narrated by Malk Williams
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Dostoevsky predicted every 20th-century political horror in 1872 — this 28-hour listen makes that fact impossible to ignore.
- Great if you want: dense Russian literature with real ideological bite
- Listening experience: slow and cerebral, darkly comic beneath the dread
- Narration: Malk Williams handles the sprawling cast with measured gravity
- Skip if: you struggle with large Russian casts or 28-hour commitments
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About This Audiobook
In a provincial Russian town in the early 1870s, a charismatic young aristocrat named Stavrogin returns and finds himself surrounded by a constellation of idealists, fanatics, and self-destroyers whose revolutionary plotting is driven less by political conviction than by personal grievance and the desire for chaos. Dostoevsky's vast novel, written in response to a real political murder, examines how nihilism corrupts not just its adherents but everyone they touch, tracing the catastrophe that Pyotr Verkhovensky's manipulations produce through a community of people who believed they were acting for the future.
Malk Williams navigates Dostoevsky's enormous, violent, and darkly comic novel with authority, handling the large ensemble of philosophically diverse characters without losing individual distinctiveness. The novel's tonal range, from genuine tragedy to almost farcical satire, is rendered with the flexibility such demanding material requires. At over twenty-eight hours, this is one of the great Russian novels in audio form.