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The idiot / Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky with an introduction by Richard Pevear.
From award-winning translators, a masterful translation of the novel in which Fyodor Dostoevsky set out to portray a truly beautiful soul. Just two years after completing "Crime and Punishment," Dostoevsky produced a second novel with a very different man at its center. In "The Idiot," the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Natasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya. Extortion and scandal escalate to murder, as Dostoevky's "positively beautiful man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his innocence and moral idealism. The idiot is both a powerful indictment of that society and a rich and gripping masterpiece.
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- ISBN: 1857152549
- ISBN: 9781857152548
- Physical Description: 633 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: London : Everyman, 2002.
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The Idiot
This study of natural goodness is Dostoevsky's most touching novel. Prince Myshkin, the last, poverty-stricken member of a once great family and regarded by many as an idiot, returns to Russia from a sanatorium in Switzerland in order to collect an inheritance. Before he has even arrived home he becomes involved with Rogozhin, a rich merchant's son whose obsession with the fascinating Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. But this is only the main thread of a rich and complex book in which a dazzling host of characters, from generals to street urchins, present the picture of an entire society on the verge of dissolution. A tragicomic masterpiece.
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