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The Idiot (Modern Library Classics)

byФёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Who is this book for? Readers interested in classic literature, psychological depth, and moral dilemmas.

Topics Social class dynamicsLove trianglesBetrayalMurderNaivetyFamily relationshipsPsychological complexityMoral dilemmasRedemptionRussian societyLoveSurvivalJusticeFriendshipFamily
MoodMelancholic, Reflective
RomanceMajor Subplot
ViolenceMild
Explicit scenesSuggestive Themes
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett’s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original.

Language

en

Published on

08/04/2003

Pages

720

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780679642428

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