The Idiot

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Typ okładki:twarda okładka

EAN: 9780241739822

Opis

The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov—and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot

Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin— known as the "idiot"—pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his family. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated, he soon finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and finally, murder. In Prince Myshkin, Dostoyevsky portrays the purity of "a truly beautiful soul" and explores the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world.

David McDuff's translation brilliantly captures the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative. This edition also contains an introduction by William Mills Todd III, which is a fascinating examination of the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story of his Christ-like hero.

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Szczegóły

Liczba stron: 784

Wymiary: 20.7x13.9

Typ okładki:twarda okładka

Wydawca: Penguin Books Ltd

Autor:

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Seria: Penguin Clothbound Classics

Tytuł:The Idiot

Kategorie:

Książki obcojęzyczne / angielskie / Fiction

EAN: 9780241739822