num_pages: 597
description: From award-winning translators, a masterful new translation–never before published–of the novel in which Fyodor Dostoevsky set out to portray a truly beautiful soul.Just two years after completing Crime and Punishment , Dostoevsky produced a second novel with a very different man at its center. In The Idiot , the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium 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.
language: English
title: Idiot,the
titlecomplete: Idiot,the
characters: Rogozhin, Nastasya Filippovna, Prince Myshkin
genres: Literature, Russia, 19th Century, Classic Literature, Philosophy, Russian Literature, Novels, Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 173749
places: St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
publisher: Bantam Classics