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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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| Festus Public Library | Fic Dostoevsky (Text) | 32017000068539 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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