An edition of Идіотъ (1880)

The idiot

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An edition of Идіотъ (1880)

The idiot

  • 4.09 ·
  • 32 Ratings
  • 204 Want to read
  • 9 Currently reading
  • 41 Have read

Prince Myshkin, a good yet simple man, is out of place in the corrupt world created by Russia's ruling class.

"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." "David McDuff's new translation captures the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptical flow of the narrative. This edition also includes a new introduction by William Mills Todd III, which is an examination of the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story of his Christ-like hero."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
732

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Bai chi
Bai chi: The idiot
2012, Chang jiang wen yi chu ban she, Hubei ren min chu ban she
in Chinese - 2 ban
Cover of: The idiot
The idiot
2004, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: The Idiot
The Idiot
August 1, 2003, Granta Books
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: The Idiot
The Idiot
1987-06, Bantam Classics
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: The idiot.
The idiot.
1979, Signet Books
in English
Cover of: L' Idiot
L' Idiot
1972, Librairie Générale Francaise
in French
Cover of: The idiot
The idiot: a novel in four parts.
1956, Heritage Press
in English
Cover of: Der Idiot
Der Idiot
1930, J. Ladyschnikow
paperback in German
Cover of: Idot
Idot: roman
1920, Izd-vo I.P. Ladyzhnikova
in Russian
Cover of: L' idiot
L' idiot: tome 2
1880, Plon
in French
Cover of: L'Idiot
L'Idiot: Tome Premier
xxxx, Plon
in French - 7è édition

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxv]-xxxvii).

Published in
London, New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.73/3
Library of Congress
PG3326 .I3 2004, PG3326

The Physical Object

Pagination
xli, 732 p. ;
Number of pages
732

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3434283M
ISBN 10
014044792X
LCCN
2005274878
OCLC/WorldCat
56129600
Library Thing
8490
Goodreads
107844

Work 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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