The Idiot A Russian Psychological Classic of Moral Innocence, Saint Petersburg Society, and a Tragic Aristocratic Love Triangle
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Verlag
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384
Maße (L/B/H)
2/15,2/22,9 cm
Gewicht
535 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-285-2405-0
In The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky stages a profound moral and psychological drama around Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, whose innocence and radical compassion collide with the vanity, greed, and spiritual disarray of Russian society. Written in a polyphonic, emotionally volatile style, the novel blends social satire, philosophical inquiry, and tragic realism, while probing holiness, suffering, love, and madness. Situated within the great nineteenth-century Russian novel, it responds to an age preoccupied with faith, nihilism, and the fractured conscience of modernity. Dostoevsky's own life deeply informs the novel's concerns. Having endured imprisonment, exile in Siberia, chronic financial hardship, and epileptic seizures, he wrote with intimate knowledge of suffering, humiliation, and redemption. His Orthodox Christian convictions and fascination with the possibility of a truly good man in a corrupted world shaped Myshkin's character. The Idiot thus emerges not merely as fiction, but as a searching spiritual and psychological experiment. This is an essential book for readers drawn to morally serious literature and to fiction that tests the limits of goodness under social pressure. The Idiot rewards careful reading with unforgettable characters, intellectual depth, and a tragic grandeur that remains intensely relevant.
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