FROM AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS, Amasterful new
translation--never before pub-lished---of the novel in which Fyodor
Dostoevskyset out to portray a truly beautiful soul.
Just two years after completing Crime
andPunishment, Dostoevsky produced a second novelwith a very
different man at its center. InThe Idiot, the saintly Prince
Myshkin returns toRussia from a Swiss sanatorium and finds
him-selfa stranger in a society obsessed with wealth,power, and
sexual conquest. He soon becomesentangled in a love triangle with a
notoriouskept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful younggirl, Aglaya.
Extortion and scandal escalate tomurder, as Dostoevsky's
"positively beautifulman" clashes with the emptiness of a
societythat cannot accommodate his innocence andmoral idealism. The
Idiot is both a powerfulindictment of that society and a rich and
grip-ping masterpiece.
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