Description
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 IdiotReturning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve 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 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.
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 8/31/2004
Pages: 732
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.22 lbs
Size: 7.78″ H x 5.08″ L x 1.4″ W
ISBN: 9780140447927
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