Into a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian
society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince
Myshkin. The tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence,
truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism
and disclose the spiritual emptiness of a society that cannot
accommodate him. Myshkin's mission ends in idiocy and darkness, but it
is the world that is rotten, not he. Written under appalling personal
circumstances when Dostoevsky was travelling in Europe, The Idiot not
only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating
psychological insight, but also affords his most incisive indictment
of Russia's struggling to emulate contemporary Europe and sinking
under the weight of Western materialism. This new translation by Alan
Myers is meticulously faithful to the original and has a critical
introduction by W. J. Leatherbarrow. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100
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ISBN
9780191505843
Publisert
2020
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OUP Oxford
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Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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