L' idiot
Subtitle: Les carnets de l'Idiot. Humiliés et offensés.
By: Traductions et notes par A. Mousset, Boris de Schlœzer et S. Luneau [pseud.] Introduction par Pierre Pascal.
Contributors: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.
Series: La Bibliothèque de la Pléiade
Publisher: Gallimard
Published: 1953
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre; rus; ita
Translated from: rus
Translation of: Идиот / Idiot
Number of pages: 1364
Other titles: Humiliés et offensés.
Description: Twenty-six-year-old Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to Russia after spending several years at a Swiss sanatorium. Scorned by the society of St. Petersburgh for his idiocy, generosity and innocence, he finds himself at the centre of a struggle between a beautiful kept woman and a gorgeous, virtuous girl, both of whom win his affection. Unfortunately, Myshkin's very goodness seems to precipitate disaster, leaving the impression that, in a world obsessed with money, power, and sexual conquest, a sanatorium may be the only place for a saint. --wikipedia.com.