Idiot
by Dostoevsky, Fyodor
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Clean & Unmarked/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394604342
- ISBN 13
- 9780394604343
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Synopsis
Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Fyodor Dostoyevsky set out to portray "a truly beautiful soul" colliding with the brutal reality of contemporary society. Returning to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive Prince Myshkin—known as "the idiot"—pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his circle. But after becoming infatuated with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna, Myshkin finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and, ultimately, murder. This new translation by David McDuff is sensitive to the shifting registers of the original Russian, capturing the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative for a new generation of readers.
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- boredom books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 91-CDN3-02XB
- Title
- Idiot
- Author
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Clean & Unmarked
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0394604342
- ISBN 13
- 9780394604343
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1983-01-01
- Size
- 9x6x1
- Keywords
- Philosophy phenomenology eastern Derrida western ethics aesthetics Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari economics social sciences art theory critical theory sociology economics Karl Marx Groucho Marx socialism capitalism schizophrenia music avant-garde dance pe
- X weight
- 28 oz
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