About the book
Fyodor Dostoyevsky built Devils on a real 1869 case involving a small, violent revolutionary circle in Russia. The title points both to the young radicals and to the materialist ideas that had taken hold of many educated Russians at the time. Dostoyevsky draws the revolutionaries satirically, stressing their naivety, their narrow fixations and their readiness for destruction. At the centre stands Nikolay Stavrogin, a charismatic figure shaped by rationalism without limits, who uses his influence with complete amorality. With some fifty characters, the novel mixes politics, morals and ideas, and it includes a chapter the censor kept out of print for many years.
Jordan B. Peterson included it on his published book list, and Ridj-it co-founder Ari Iaccarino described reading it as a welcome break from the books he reads to learn skills for his company.
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Ari Iaccarino (Co-Founder/Ridj-it)
I’m currently reading The Devils by Dostoevsky, and I expect to glean absolutely nothing from it but the pleasure of disconnecting from any other literature that requires me to learn a skill for the company. The overburdening characters and plethora of words for something that could otherwise be said in an instant is a type of therapeutic brain massage in an environment where saying as little as possible with maximum effect is the plow that tills the soil in startup atmosphere.
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