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About this book

Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Fyodor Dostoyevsky set out to portray "a truly beautiful soul" colliding with the brutal reality of contemporary society. Returning to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive Prince Myshkin—known as "the idiot"—pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his circle. But after becoming infatuated with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna, Myshkin finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and, ultimately, murder. This new translation by David McDuff is sensitive to the shifting registers of the original Russian, capturing the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative for a new generation of readers.

Subjects

aristocracy (social class)

atonement

brothers

chr 2004

church decoration and ornament

classic literature

conditions sociales

continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)

dictionaries

english fiction

english language

english literature, translations

epileptics

épileptiques

fathers and daughters

fiction

fiction, general

fiction in english

french language

frères

german

good and evil

histoire

historical fiction

history

idiot (television program)

long now manual for civilization

notebooks, sketchbooks

pères et filles

princes

pro gotham book mart (former owner) (gotham book mart collection copy)

relations

romans, nouvelles

russia

russia in fiction

russian fiction

russian fiction, translations into english

russian literature

sanatoriums

social conditions

social life and customs

television adaptations

translations from russian

translations into english

triangle (relations humaines)

triangles (interpersonal relations)

художественная литература -- российская федерация -- русская литература -- 2-ая пол. 19 в. -- романы