19th Century

The Idiot

Name: The Idiot
Brand: Penguin Classics
SKU: 9780140447927
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ISBN: 9780140447927

Contributor(s): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Author , McDuff, David Author , Arad, Ron Author Format: Paperback

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ISBN	9780140447927
Publisher	Penguin Classics
Publication date	May 2004
Language	English
MRP	£10.99 GBP
Page count	784
Item weight	119 g

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.

The Idiot

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Author

McDuff, David Author

Arad, Ron Author

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