The idiot / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky ; with an introduction by Richard Pevear.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

Contributor:

Pevear, Richard, 1943-

Volokhonsky, Larissa.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Vintage classics

Standardized Title:

Idiot. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Social conditions.

Russia--Social conditions--1801-1917--Fiction.

Social history.

Russia.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xxii, 633 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First Vintage Classics edition.

Production:

New York : Vintage Books, 2003, c2001.

Summary:

From award-winning translators, a masterful new translation-never before published-of the novel in which Fyodor Dostoevsky set out to portray a truly beautiful soul. Just two years after completing "Crime and Punishment," Dostoevsky produced a second novel with a very different man at its center. In "The Idiot," the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya. Extortion and scandal escalate to murder, as Dostoevsky's "positively beautiful man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his innocence and moral idealism. "The Idiot" is both a powerful indictment of that society and a rich and gripping masterpiece.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Everyman's Library, 2002.

ISBN:

9780375702242

0375702245

OCLC:

52578655