Devils
Dostoevsky's most savage and prophetic novel — a portrait of revolutionary nihilism that anticipated the twentieth century with terrifying accuracy.
“Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.”
Why It Matters
Dostoevsky's most savage and prophetic novel — a portrait of revolutionary nihilism that anticipated the twentieth century with terrifying accuracy. Camus said the book was the prophecy of his time. Its diagnosis of how abstract idealism becomes mass murder has never been improved upon.
The 
Take
Personal reviewAnother banger but this one takes a long time to get going. It’s mostly a philosophical exploration of a great spiritual emptiness in society caused by an older generation’s metastasis of traditional values into vanity, causing the younger generation to grow up with almost no faith in traditional beliefs at all, easily infected by evil and madness. Low brow just a fun dark shit show of a plot, like all Dostoevsky.
Notable Quotes
“I cannot love what I do not respect.”
“All man's troubles come from this — that he is afraid to admit he is unhappy.”