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The idiot / Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated with notes by David McDuff ; with an introduction by William Mills Todd III.
In this literary classic, saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanitorium 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.
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- ISBN: 9780140447927 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: xli, 732 pages ; 20 cm.
- Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2004.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in 1868. Translation of: Idiot. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Russian. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Prince Myshkin, a good yet simple man, is out of place in the corrupt world created by Russia's ruling class. - Blackwell North Amer
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, his wife and his three daughters. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated with her, 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 set out to portray the purity of 'a truly beautiful soul' and to explore the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world. - Penguin Putnam
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazovâand the namesake of Elif Batumanâs debut novel, The Idiot
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Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkinâ known as the âidiotââpays 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 âa truly beautiful soulâ and explores the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world.
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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. - Random House, Inc.
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 Myshkinâknown as "the idiot"âpays 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.
