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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: F.M. Dostoevky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dostoevsky Fyodor
• Con la collaborazione di: Richard Pevear (Introduzione), Pevear Richard (Introduzione), Richard Pevear (Traduzione), Pevear Richard (Traduzione), Larissa Volokhonsky (Traduzione), Volokhonsky Larissa (Traduzione)
• Editore: Everyman's Library UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 25.04.2002
• EAN: 9781857152548
• ISBN: 978-1-85715-254-8
• Pagine: 680
• Dimensioni: 137 mm x 210 mm x 36 mm
• Serie: Everyman's Library CLASSICS; Everyman's Library CLASSICS
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Russische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary