THE IDIOT by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Dostoevsky, Fyodor ISBN 9780553210392, 9780553213522, 0553210394, 0553213520 instant download

THE IDIOT by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Dostoevsky, Fyodor ISBN 9780553210392, 9780553213522, 0553210394, 0553213520 instant download

\"Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life--abject poverty, incessant gambling, the death of his youngest child--Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, after completing Crime and Punishment. In it, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than with the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections. Extortion, scandal, and murder follow, testing Myshkin's moral feelings, as Dostoevsky searches through the wreckage left by human misery to find \"man in man.\" The Idiot is a quintessentially Russian novel, one that penetrates the complex psyche of the Russian people. \"They call me a psychologist,\" wrote Dostoevsky. \"That is not true. I'm only a realist in the higher sense; that is, I portray all the depths of the human soul.\"\" -- Provided by publisher 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.