Russian Herald. The first publication of the novel "Demons". pp. 131-191

Russian Herald. The first publication of the novel "Demons". pp. 131-191
Magazine literary and political, published By M. Katkov. Volume ninety-five.

M. In University Printing. 1871 328 PP., Appendix: novel By Fate pages 379-490, novel adventures of Harry Richmond pages 385-416. Softcover, size 15 x 22.5 cm Print, pocket, almost lost spine, some pages are cut from the bottom (without loss for the text), bent corners, frayed edges of the pages, the block is divided (but not broken) into notebooks.

Demons: the second part, chapters 3-5.

Dostoevsky conceived a not very large work on the malice of the day, which he planned to finish soon. In the spring of 1870 Dostoevsky wrote about this critic and philosopher Nikolai Strakhov: "the thing that I now write in the "Russian Bulletin", I strongly hope, but not from the artistic and tendentious side; I want to Express a few thoughts, at least at the same time suffered artistry. But I am carried away by what has accumulated in my mind and heart; let a pamphlet come out, but I will speak out."

The "Demons" included parts of the plan of the great novel "the Life of the great sinner", possibly originated in Dostoevsky immediately after his return from exile.

In the process of writing, the idea and plot of the work became much more complicated. The controversy of heroes and ideologues continued the line begun in the novel "Crime and punishment". "Demons" became one of the most significant works of Dostoevsky-a novel-prediction, a novel-warning.