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portada The Idiot (Penguin Classics)
Type
Physical Book
Translated by
Introduction by
Publisher
Year
2004
Language
English
Pages
732
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.8 x 12.9 x 3.6 cm
Weight
0.55 kg.
ISBN
014044792X
ISBN13
9780140447927
Edition No.
1

The Idiot (Penguin Classics)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author) · David McDuff (Translated by) · William Mills Todd (Introduction by) · Penguin Group · Paperback

The Idiot (Penguin Classics) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Synopsis "The Idiot (Penguin Classics)"

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 naïve 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.

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