Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Jan. 10, 2010)
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.
- ISBN
- 1450517854 / 9781450517850
- Pages
- 392
- Weight
- 28.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.0 x 0.9 in.
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