Name: The Idiot (Penguin Classics)
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Author: Fiódor M. Dostoievski

Type

Physical Book

Author

Fiódor M. Dostoievski

Translated by

David McDuff

Introduction by

William Mills Todd

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

732

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8x12.9x3.6 cm

Weight

0.55 kg.

ISBN

014044792X

ISBN13

9780140447927

Edition No.

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.

Fiódor M. Dostoievski

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Moscow, November 11, 1821-Saint Petersburg, February 9, 1881) was one of the main writers of Tsarist Russia, whose literature explores human psychology in the complex political, social, and spiritual context of Russian society in the second half of the 19th century

He is considered one of the greatest writers of the West and of world literature.

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