Fyodor Dostoevsky

Idiot (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an illness that caused him to lose his memory and ability to reason, Prince Myshkin arrives in St Petersburg and is at once confronted with the stark realities of life in the Russian capital - from greed, murder and nihilism to passion, vanity and love. Mocked for his childlike naivety yet valued for his openness and understanding, Prince Myshkin finds himself entangled with two women in a position he cannot bring himself to resolve.Dostoevsky, who wrote that in the character of Prince Myshkin he hoped to portray a "e;wholly virtuous man"e;, shows the workings of the human mind and our relationships with others in all their complex and contradictory nature. Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters, from the beautiful, self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna to the dangerously obsessed Rogozhin and the radical student Ippolit, The Idiot is one of Dostoevsky's most personal and intense works of fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alma Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780714545820
• Artikelnr.: 54105778

Autorenporträt

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov rank among the greatest of the nineteenth century.   David McDuff (translator) has translated many works of nineteenth-century Russian literature, including works by Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Leskov for Penguin Classics.   William Mills Todd III (introducer) is a professor of Slavic languages at Harvard.

Inhaltsangabe

The IdiotChronology
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the Translation
The Idiot
Notes