The idiot

$ 8

  • E book
  • Fiction
Category:
Description

First published serially between 1868 and 1869, “The Idiot” is Dostoevsky’s most deeply personal work, which he remarked was his own personal favorite. It follows the journey of the title character, Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, who is actually intelligent but is cynically referred to as an “idiot” by his fellow characters for his moralistic purity. Prince Myshkin is a young man from an ancient noble Russian family who is returning home after a two year stay at a Swiss clinic for treatment of his epilepsy, a condition that Dostoevsky himself suffered from. On his train journey home he meets the darkly passionate and reckless young man Rogozhin, and is drawn into a love triangle with the beautiful, but flawed and destructive, Nastasya Filippovna. Upon returning to Russia, Prince Myshkin stands out as the exact opposite of the society around him. He is thoughtful, deliberate, deeply compassionate, and selfless; while his contemporaries are greedy, impulsive, materialistic, manipulative, and self-absorbed. They cannot understand the Prince and mistakenly interpret his naivete as idiocy. “The Idiot” is a tragic, haunting, and deeply moving examination of a wholesome and idealistic man’s struggle to cope with the changes being brought on by a modernizing Russia during the second half of the 19th century. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and follows the translation of Eva M. Martin.

Reviews (0)

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Be the first to review “The idiot”

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Shipping & Delivery
More Products

The house of arden

$ 7
  • E book
  • Children
  • Adventure
  • Fantasy
  • Fiction
  • Historical
Add to cart

Tarzan at the Earth’s core

$ 1
  • E book
  • Fiction
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Classic
  • Fantasy
  • Science fiction
Add to cart

Satans diary

$ 5
  • E book
  • Fiction
  • Classic
  • Fantasy
Add to cart

Men of iron

$ 5
  • E book
  • Children
  • Fiction
  • Adventure
  • Fantasy
  • Historical fiction
  • Young adult
Add to cart

The mill on the floss

$ 1
  • E book
  • Fiction
  • Classic
  • Historical
Add to cart

Rebel spurs

$ 1
  • E book
  • Fiction
  • Adventure
  • Historical
  • Science fiction
  • Young Adult
Add to cart