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The Idiot: Introduction by Richard Pevear [With Ribbon Book Mark]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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From award-winning translators, a masterful new translation-never before published-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, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya. Extortion and scandal escalate to murder, as Dostoevsky'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.
From award-winning translators, a masterful new translation-never before published-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, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya. Extortion and scandal escalate to murder, as Dostoevsky'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.
- Format: Inbunden
- ISBN: 9780375413926
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 672
- Utgivningsdatum: 2002-04-01
- Översättare: Larissa Volokhonsky Richard Pevear
- Förlag: Everyman's Library