All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright above, no part of this publication shall be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book. First published in 2014 by The Text Publishing Company Cover and page design by W. H. Chong Typeset by J&M Typesetting The quotes from Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard are from Peter Carson’s translations in Anton Chekhov: Plays (Penguin, 2002); quotes from Dostoevsky’s Demons from the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Vintage, 2006); and the epigraph from a letter written by Kleist to Wilhelmine von Zenge, November 16, 1800. The translation is by Peter Wortsman, from his Afterword to Selected Prose of Heinrich Von Kleist (Archipelago, 2010). Printed in Australia by Griffin Press, an Accredited ISO AS/NZS 14001:2004 Environmental Management System printer National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: Author: Macauley, Wayne Title: Demons / by Wayne Macauley.
