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Summary- Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa VolokhonskyWritten in 1872 and inspired by a political assassination in 1869, previous translations of this novel were erroneously titled The Possessed. Dostoevsky is a genius. It took me some time to get the hang of it, but once it got going, I was enthralled. I was puzzled for quite awhile as to who exactly the demons were. Then I realized that the characters weren't the demons. They were the possessed. The demons that possessed them weren't little red men with horns and goatees. They were much more terrible. Some of the minor demons: ignorance, vanity, conceit, lust, and indifference. The real bad asses though, were ideas like atheism, socialism and nihilism.These ideas consumed and blinded normal human beings such that they acted evilly. Less than a century after the writing of this novel, Europe saw ideas consume and blind enough to allow the heinous murder of tens of millions of people at the hands of Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, etc. Dostoevsky tried to warn us that our ideas are our creations and we are responsible for how we use them, how we harness them and keep them from harnessing us. QuestionsMy Life, Their Century. The Fathers. Stalin studies to be a priest, Hitlet -- an artist, Mao -- a poet... The Terror and Terrorists.Notes"Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss!" -- Einstein ... ничего и никогда не было для человека и для человеческого общества невыносимее свободы! Dostoevsky  images directory
“And there was one herd of many swine feeding on this mountain; and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
W AND DOSTOEVSKY: GEORGE W. BUSH IS A MAN POSSESSED 2004!
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Cuts page should grow, if I am to get to this project again. Dodin make the show in Petersburg three-night long. TV serial? Cut the Barbara line (althoug Mother-Son is important for the "Stavrogin" titled story, she is in love with him, too - Freud?). What about Father (spiritual), who lives with his mother? I am under Beckett's influence now (Godot), the absurd is the method in the Possessed (logic of murder), TERROR is expression of terror existential! OBL is a teenager (in his historical time-frame), European thought had in XIX century... Beckett and Dostoevsky [ ]
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2007-2008 ... another look at the story.
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"In the Devils, Dostoevsky adapts the idea of a revolutionary group from a case that occurred in 1869. He combines the Nechayev case and his own beliefs in order to create the central plot of the Devils. Dostoevsky depicts a radical group that desires to overthrow the government and undermine the Russian church. The extremists hope to replace themselves at the helm of the country by displacing those who are currently in power. The strengths of the group are their ability to remain clandestine, their intelligence, and their ability to commit horrific crimes with little remorse. However, the entire group crumbles at the pinnacle of their actions.I know that I can't force the story on stage again. So, take two is the screenplay. Of sorts. Bergman' style. Not a director's script, by of readers!
The entire novel takes place in a small town outside of Petersburg and is narrated by a man named Mr. Govorov. Mr. Govorov does not witness every conversation first hand, but nonetheless the narrator describes the story as if he partook in every situation or as a chronicler, who had the events described to him. We know very little of Mr. Govorov, except that he is a close friend of Stephan Trofimovich. [ summary ]I used the play by Camus, but hoping that while working on the show I can develop the original composition... July 2003 (new title -- 'Terror'?)2004: Looks like my post-production cycle (web) is to become the pre-production -- for the film!"Nothing and ever was more unbearable for a man and a society than freedom," Dostoevsky.
Demons, Devils, The PossessedDIRECTOR'S AFTER-THOUGHTS: Another rewrite -- but why film?
There are two reviews on this book's adaptations to stage (somewhere on my webpages), both are in Russia and both are by great directors (Dodin and Vijda), both are not masterpieces. In fact, I haven't seen a single great show based on Dostoevsky. Is it possible that the screen is more suitable for "dialogic realism," Mr. Bakhtin?
Dostoevsky Research in Russian
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
MEN
Stepan Verkhovensky
Pyotr Verkhovensky
Nicolai Stavrogin
Shatov
Kirillov
Captain Lebyadkin
Shigalyov
Liputin
Virginsky
WOMEN
Varvara Stavrogin
Marya Lebyadkin
Dasha
Liza Tushina
The Girl
The Possessed : Scene List by Character
[ An (X) next to a character's name denotes that character's death in that scene. ]1 - Varvara's: Varvara, Stepan, Stavrogin, Shatov, Dasha, Gagnov, Liputin, Shigalov, Virginsky
2 - Kirilov and Shatov's dwelling: Maurice, Kirilov
3 - Kirilov and Shatov's dwelling: Maria, Shatov, The Captain
4 - Varvara's: Stepan, Shatov, Varvara, Lisa, Maria, The Captain, Peter, Stavrogin, Maurice, Dasha
5 - Varvara's: Stavrogin, Peter, Stepan
6 - Rooming house: Stavrogin, Kirilov, Shatov
7 - Bridge: Stavrogin, Fedka
8 - The Captain and Maria's dwelling: The Captain, Maria, Stavrogin
9 - The street: Stavrogin, Fedka
10 - Duel -- The forest: Kirilov, Maurice, Stavrogin, Gaganov
11 - Varvara's: Dasha, Stavrogin, Peter
12 - Rooming house: Kirilov, Shatov, Peter, Liputin, Virginsky, Shigalov, Lyamshin, The Seminarian, Stavrogin
13 - The street & Varvara's: Stavrogin, Peter, Dasha
14 - Tihon's cell - Stavrogin, Tihon(voice-over)
15 - Varvara's: Stavrogin, Peter, Stepan, Varvara, Lisa, Maurice
15A - The Captain and Maria's dwelling: The Captain(X), Maria(X), Fedka
16 - Country house: Stavrogin, Lisa, Peter
17 - The street: Lisa(X), Maurice(X), Stepan
18 - Shatov's room: Mary, Shatov, Kirilov, Lyamshin
19 - Murder -- The forest: Peter, Virginsky, Liputin, Shigalov, Shatov(X)
20 - The street: Peter, Fedka
21 - Rooming house: Kirilov, Peter, Mary(X) (Also, Mary's newborn(X))
22 - Varvara's: Varvara, Stepan(X), Dasha, Stavrogin(X)
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Nechaev story took place in St. Petersburg. Dostoevsky read and wrote it in Germany -- and placed his story in some provincial town. Why -- I ask myself?
I trust his instincts and I believe that he wanted to make it more ordinary, anywhere and everyplace tale.
How much could the genius know about our "war on terror"? Well, he was the first who noticed and recognized the birth of Russian terrorism (we know the rest of the story from history). Of course there are many reasons why it took place in Mother-Russia, enough said about it. What Dostoevsky was interested in is not so much the geography, but the nature of this phenomena, which is universal.
I didn't stage "The Possessed" as a period piece -- I don't know how to do it, because I have no interest in it. I thought about taking the story all the way to Fairbanks, Alaska, but I didn't want to rewrite everything -- too much work and the distance which each good tale needs would be gone. Besides, I'm directing it, staging, not writing...
Well, I ended up with countless rewrites, up to the opening night. Why?
If you would take a closer look at the novel, you notice rather sophisticated organization of what Bakhtin named "chronotope" (Eisenstein would say "accelerated montage"). The time of the story becomes faster and the places collapse into one. My actors were joking that I making it into a new story "Stavrogin" -- but the actual place where action is in Stavrogin's head and heart (very much like in "Crime and Punishment" -- Raskolnikov). What did I just say? Hello, movie!
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The Possesed @ Amazon (Dostoevsky)
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Don't rewrite it into a modern story, I keep saying -- it could be Turkey 2005 or Rifle, Co. -- I need no justification for TV news and phones.
Enough about my struggle with Camus. If not for his play I wouldn't dare to wrestle with the 800+ pages gorilla. But I followed his appreciation and respect for Dostoevsky.
And the cause. "War on Terror" has no end, if we understand anything about the century of existentialism. You can't fight this war with tanks and smart bombs. This is a war of a single man against all. This is the war, which aim is not victory, the war of desperation and the suicides. This is the new war in the age of the global village.
What is the point of this war?
Answer the old question by the young man Hamlet -- and then we can talk.
This war is personal and has many personal reasons; each time they are different. Unabomber and Colombine -- what do they have in common with OBL?
Only one thing -- the terror of life, the fear of existance.
Never felt it?
Then forget it, man!
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