The Possessed

The Possessed is an extremely political book, as well as a testimony of the life of Imperial Russia back in the late XIX century.

As the revolutionary democrats begin to arise in Russia, different ideals begin to collide, all of them exposed in this book, where the author shows his disgust for the left-wing idealists.

Amongst others, the reader will find four main characters: Verjovensky, Shatov, Stavroguin and Tijon. Through their ideas, the Dostoyevsky describes the political chaos arising in Russia.

A recursive topic treated in this book is that of the Dostoyevsky, Russian Literature