![]() ![]() As is true of their previous translations of the works Dostoevsky and Gogol, this will be the definitive edition of The Idiot for years to come. ![]() 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. The Idiot is both a powerful indictment of that society and a rich and gripping masterpiece. 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. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya. ![]() ![]() 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. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment More posts you may like. Just two weeks after completing Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky produced a second novel with a very different man at its centre. The Idiot: Pevear & Volokhonsky Translation (Vintage Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Multiple formats, 1.99) Amazon. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, justly acclaimed for their translations of such Russian classics as Gogols Dead Souls and Dostoyevskis The. ![]()
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