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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Paperback. Editor(s): Myers, Alan. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 688 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 466.
Into a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. The tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism and disclose the spiritual emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate him. Myshkin's mission ends in idiocy and darkness, but it is the world that is rotten, not he. Written under appalling personal circumstances when Dostoevsky was travelling in Europe, The Idiot not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most incisive indictment ... Read more
Into a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. The tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism and disclose the spiritual emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate him. Myshkin's mission ends in idiocy and darkness, but it is the world that is rotten, not he. Written under appalling personal circumstances when Dostoevsky was travelling in Europe, The Idiot not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most incisive indictment ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
688
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
688
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199536399
SKU
V9780199536399
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