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The Idiot

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The Idiot

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The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov—and the namesake of Elif Batuman’s debut novel, The Idiot   Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin— known as the “idiot”—pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his family. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated, he soon finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and finally, murder. In Prince Myshkin, Dostoyevsky portrays the purity of “a truly beautiful soul” and explores the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world.   David McDuff's translation brilliantly captures the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative. This edition also contains an introduction by William Mills Todd III, which is a fascinating examination of the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story of his Christ-like hero.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
784
Release Date:
2004-05-27
Publication Date:
2004-05-27
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
014044792X
ISBN13:
9780140447927
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
527 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
36 cm
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