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The Idiot

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The Idiot

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"My intention is to portray a truly beautiful soul." -Dostoevsky Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life-abject poverty, incessant gambling, the death of his youngest child-Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, after completing Crime and Punishment. In it, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than with the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections. Extortion, scandal, and murder follow, testing Myshkin's moral feelings, as Dostoevsky searches through the wreckage left by human misery to find "man in man." The Idiot is a quintessentially Russian novel, one that penetrates the complex psyche of the Russian people. "They call me a psychologist," wrote Dostoevsky. "That is not true. I'm only a realist in the higher sense; that is, I portray all the depths of the human soul."
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
720
Release Date:
1983-07-01
Publication Date:
1983-07-01
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0553213520
ISBN13:
9780553213522
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
337 g
Height:
106 cm
Width:
174 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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