The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0451524926
- ISBN 13
- 9780451524928
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Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin's honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him.
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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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- Title
- The Idiot
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 12th printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0451524926
- ISBN 13
- 9780451524928
- Publisher
- Signet Classics
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- This edition first published
- August 21, 1986
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Literature;
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