The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alan Myers, William Leatherbarrow (Senior Lecturer in Russian, Senior Lecturer in Russian, University of Sheffield)

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Worlds Classics
12 June 2008

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Oxford World's Classics

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Into a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. The tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism and disclose the spiritual emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate him. Myshkin's mission ends in idiocy and darkness, but it is the world that is rotten, not he.

Written under appalling personal circumstances when Dostoevsky was travelling in Europe, The Idiot not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most incisive indictment of Russia's struggling to emulate contemporary Europe and sinking under the weight of Western materialism.

This new translation by Alan Myers is meticulously faithful to the original and has a critical introduction by W. J. Leatherbarrow.

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By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Introduction by: William Leatherbarrow (Senior Lecturer in Russian Senior Lecturer in Russian University of Sheffield)
Edited and translated by: Alan Myers
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 474g
ISBN: 9780199536399
ISBN 10: 0199536392
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 688
Publication Date: 12 June 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active