The Idiot

This study of natural goodness is Dostoevsky's most touching novel. Prince Myshkin, the last, poverty-stricken member of a once great family and regarded by many as an idiot, returns to Russia from a sanatorium in Switzerland in order to collect an inheritance. Before he has even arrived home he becomes involved with Rogozhin, a rich merchant's son whose obsession with the fascinating Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. But this is only the main thread of a rich and complex book in which a dazzling host of characters, from generals to street urchins, present the picture of an entire society on the verge of dissolution. A tragicomic masterpiece.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: F.M. Dostoevky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dostoevsky Fyodor
• Mitarbeit: Richard Pevear (Einführung), Pevear Richard (Einführung), Richard Pevear (Übersetzung), Pevear Richard (Übersetzung), Larissa Volokhonsky (Übersetzung), Volokhonsky Larissa (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Everyman's Library UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 25.04.2002
• EAN: 9781857152548
• ISBN: 978-1-85715-254-8
• Seiten: 680
• Abmessung: 137 mm x 210 mm x 36 mm
• Serien: Everyman's Library CLASSICS; Everyman's Library CLASSICS
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Hauptwerk vor 1945; Russische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary