A novel of innocence and iniquity, love and murder, by the
nineteenth-century Russian author of Crime and Punishment and The
Brothers Karamazov. After several years in a Swiss sanatorium,
twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin returns to Russian society to
collect his rightful inheritance. But he soon crosses paths with the
dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose desire for Nastasya
Filippovna will set the three of them on a tragic course. As author
Fyodor Dostoevsky traces the effect of Myshkin’s innocence on the
people around him in St. Petersburg, scandal escalates to
murder . . . “I think The Idiot to be a masterpiece—flawed,
occasionally tedious or overwrought, like many masterpieces—but a
fact of world literature just as important as the densely dramatic
Brothers Karamazov or the brilliantly subtle and terrifying Devils. In
those two novels, as in the simpler Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
had plots and political and religious ideas working together. In The
Idiot he is straining to grasp a story and a character converting
themselves from Gothic to Saint’s Life on the run. What makes the
greatness is double—the character of the prince, and a powerful
series of confrontations with death. The true subject of The Idiot is
the imminence and immanence of death.” —A. S. Byatt, The Guardian
“Nothing is outside Dostoevsky’s province. . . . Out of
Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading.” —Virginia Woolf
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ISBN
9781504061445
Publisert
2020
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Open Road Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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