The idiot
Subtitle: a novel in four parts.
By: The translation by Constance Garnett rev. & edited for this ed., with an introd., by Avrahm Yarmolinsky, and illustrated with wood-engravings by Fritz Eichenberg.
Publisher: Heritage Press
Published: 1956
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 560
Description: 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.
Notes: Translation of Idiot.