THE POSSESSED

Fyodor Dostoyevsky 지음 | Paul Klee 그림 | Constance Garnett 옮김

포레스트 위즈덤 2025년 08월 20일 출간

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"The Possessed"(also known in English as "The Devils" and "The Demons") by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a novel written during the late 19th century.
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Dostoevsky conceived of "Demons" as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. The novel's relevance, however, is not limited to Russia and its revolution. With its cast of idealistic murderers and suicides, seductive madmen and glamorous fanatics, "The Possessed" is a novel for our time as well.

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PART I
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II PRINCE HARRY. MATCHMAKING
CHAPTER III THE SINS OF OTHERS
CHAPTER IV THE CRIPPLE
CHAPTER V THE SUBTLE SERPENT

PART II
CHAPTER I NIGHT
CHAPTER II NIGHT (continued)
CHAPTER III THE DUEL
CHAPTER IV ALL IN EXPECTATION
CHAPTER V ON THE EVE OF THE FETE
CHAPTER VI PYOTR STEPANOVITCH IS BUSY
CHAPTER VII A MEETING
CHAPTER VIII IVAN THE TSAREVITCH
CHAPTER IX A RAID AT STEPAN TROFIMOVITCH’S
CHAPTER X FILIBUSTERS. A FATAL MORNING

PART III
CHAPTER I THE FETE—FIRST PART
CHAPTER II THE END OF THE FETE
CHAPTER III A ROMANCE ENDED
CHAPTER IV THE LAST RESOLUTION
CHAPTER V A WANDERER
CHAPTER VI A BUSY NIGHT
CHAPTER VII STEPAN TROFIMOVITCH’S LAST WANDERING
CHAPTER VIII CONCLUSION

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저자(글) Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky(1821~1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), The Adolescent (1875) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His Notes from Underground, a novella published in 1864, is considered one of the first works of existentialist literature.
Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends and through books by Russian and foreign authors. His mother died of tuberculosis on 27 February 1837, when he was 15, and around the same time, he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute (later renamed the Military Engineering-Technical University). After graduating, he worked as an engineer and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, translating books to earn extra money. In the mid-1840s, he wrote his first novel, Poor Folk, which gained him entry into Saint Petersburg's literary circles. However, he was arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group, the Petrashevsky Circle, that discussed banned books critical of Tsarist Russia. Dostoevsky was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted at the last moment. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of compulsory military service in exile. In the following years, Dostoevsky worked as a journalist, publishing and editing several magazines of his own and later A Writer's Diary, a collection of his writings. He began to travel around Western Europe and developed a gambling addiction, which led to financial hardship. For a time, he had to beg for money, but he eventually became one of the most widely read and highly regarded Russian writers.
Dostoevsky's body of work consists of thirteen novels, three novellas, seventeen short stories, and numerous other works. His writings were widely read both within and beyond his native Russia, influencing an equally great number of later writers, including Russians such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anton Chekhov, the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre, and the emergence of Existentialism and Freudianism. His books have been translated into more than 170 languages, and served as the inspiration for many films.

번역 Constance Garnett

그림/만화 Paul Klee