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Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this positively beautiful man on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature. Totsky is an extraordinarily rich and high-ranking middle-aged man who was previously the guardian of Nastasya after she was orphaned as a young girl. The Idiot is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in in 1869. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Prince Myshkin is on a train pulling into St. Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchants son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and be among people.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonskys masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky | Richard Pevear | Larissa Volokhonsky € 25.99 This item arrived at our Amsterdam store within the past 8 weeks If not in stock, the expected delivery time for this item will be 3 - 5 weeks.
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