Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Idiot -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Paperback
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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 na ve 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.
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 08/31/2004
Pages: 732
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.08w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780140447927
Age Range: 18-UP
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 08/31/2004
Pages: 732
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.08w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780140447927
Age Range: 18-UP
About the Author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov rank among the greatest of the nineteenth century.
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