The Idiot (Paperback)

"My intention is to portray a truly beautiful soul." -- Dostoevsky

Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life -- object poverty, incessant gambling, the death of his firstborn child -- Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, just two years 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."

General

Imprint:	Roundhouse Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	A Bantam classic
Release date:	November 1998
First published:	July 1983
Authors:	Constance Black Garnett • F. M. Dostoevsky
Dimensions:	174 x 106 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	696
ISBN-13:	978-0-553-21352-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > General
LSN:	0-553-21352-0
Barcode:	9780553213522

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