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. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. The Idiot Dostoyevsky’s next major novel, Idiot (186869 The Idiot ), represents his attempt to describe a perfectly good man in a way that is still psychologically convincingseemingly an impossible artistic task. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. 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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