Dimensions
130 x 198 x 38mm
A fresh edition of a classic by award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Just two weeks after completing 'Crime And Punishment', Dostoevsky produced a second novel with a very different man at its centre. In 'The Idiot', the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanitorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya.
Extortion and scandal escalate to murder, as Dostoevsky's "positively beautiful man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his innocence and moral idealism. 'The Idiot' is both a powerful indictment of that society and a rich and gripping masterpiece.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's new translation - fresh, crisp and faithful to the original (bumps and blemishes included) - brings the story of Prince Myshkin to new life.
