The Idiot (Bantam Classic) - Softcover

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553213520 ISBN 13: 9780553213522

Verlag: Bantam Classics, 1983

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Book by Dostoevsky Fyodor

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"Nothing is outside Dostoevsky's province. . . . Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading." --Virginia Woolf

Reseña del editor:

"My intention is to portray a truly beautiful soul." --Dostoevsky Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life--abject poverty, incessant gambling, the death of his youngest child--Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, after completing Crime and Punishment. In it, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than with the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections. Extortion, scandal, and murder follow, testing Myshkin's moral feelings, as Dostoevsky searches through the wreckage left by human misery to find "man in man." The Idiot is a quintessentially Russian novel, one that penetrates the complex psyche of the Russian people. "They call me a psychologist," wrote Dostoevsky. "That is not true. I'm only a realist in the higher sense; that is, I portray all the depths of the human soul."

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• Verlag: Bantam Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0553213520
• ISBN 13: 9780553213522
• Einband: Libro de bolsillo
• Anzahl der Seiten: 720