The Nobel Prize–winning author here adapts Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece for the stage--a rousing invective against nihilism that brings together two of the great literary minds of the last two centuries When Albert Camus first read Dostoyevsky as a twenty-year-old philosophy student, it was a “soul-shaking experience.” To complete this labor of love, Camus drew on hundreds of pages from Dostoyevsky’s When it was finally performed, in 1959--with Camus himself directing--the play ran to four hours long and was an artistic and technical triumph, featuring thirty-three actors and seven sets. The last finished work before Camus’s death, <The Possessed <stands as an enduring literary statement about human existence in which the conscience of the twentieth century meets and defines in contemporary terms the conscience of the nineteenth century.

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Albert Camus; With an introduction by Adam Gopnik