The idiot
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
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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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Russia in fiction, Fiction, Social conditions, Social life and customs, Russian fiction, Translations into English, Russia, Classic Literature, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Television adaptations, Idiot (Television program), Accessible book, English fiction, Russian literature, Translations from Russian, German, Dictionaries, English language, Russian fiction, translations into english, English literature, translations, Princes, Художественная литература -- Российская Федерация -- Русская литература -- 2-ая пол. 19 в. -- Романы, Aristocracy (Social class), Brothers, Fathers and daughters, Atonement, Epileptics, Sanatoriums, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), History, Romans, nouvelles, Frères, Pères et filles, Épileptiques, Triangle (Relations humaines), Conditions sociales, Histoire, CHR 2004, PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)Places
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1801-1917, 1533-1917, 19th centuryShowing 11 featured editions. View all 275 editions?
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