The Idiot (Vintage Classics)

Fiction & Literature, Saga, Classics, Literary
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Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky ISBN: 9780553901894
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: July 18, 2012
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
ISBN: 9780553901894
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: July 18, 2012
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov*,* and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.

After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment*,* Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this “positively beautiful man” on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.

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Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov*,* and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.

After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment*,* Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this “positively beautiful man” on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.

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