The Idiot
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Author
Contributions
- Richard Pevear (Translator) - Contributor
- Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) - Contributor
Publication
2003-07-08 - Vintage
Language
English
Word Count
164,000 words, Guess
Page Count
656 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100375702245
- ISBN-139780375702242
- Goodreads12854
- OCLC Control Number52578655
- Better World Books9780375702242
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL7426192M
Classifications
- DDC891.733
Description
Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Fyodor Dostoyevsky set out to portray "a truly beautiful soul" colliding with the brutal reality of contemporary society. Returning to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive Prince Myshkin—known as "the idiot"—pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his circle. But after becoming infatuated with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna, Myshkin finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and, ultimately, murder. This new translation by David McDuff is sensitive to the shifting registers of the original Russian, capturing the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative for a new generation of readers.
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