ISBN 9780375702242 | 0375702245 Textbooks - "The Idiot Vintage Classics" by Dostoyevsky Fyodor Dostoevsky Dostoevsky Fyodor Larissa Translator Fyodor Dostoevsky TranslatorRichard Pevear TranslatorLarissa Volokhonsky Fyodor Pevear Richard Translator Volokhonsky

Authors: Dostoyevsky - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Dostoevsky - Fyodor - Larissa (Translator) - Fyodor Dost…
ISBN 10: 0375702245
ISBN 13: 9780375702242
Release: July 8, 2003
Format: Paperback (656 pages)
List Price: $13.95
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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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The Idiot (Vintage Classics)