The Idiot
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
In The Idiot, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections. Extortion, scandal, and murder follow, testing the wreckage left by human misery to find "man in man."
The Idiot is a quintessentially Russian novel, one that penetrates the complex psyche of the Russian people. "They call me a psychologist," wrote Dostoevsky. "That is not true. I'm only a realist in the higher sense; that is, I portray all the depths of the human soul."
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- : 0.435449
- : 30 June 2003
- : 202mm X 133mm X 28mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Fyodor Dostoevsky; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 656