Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women-the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia-both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin's honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett's drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original.
| ISBN: | 9780679642428 |
| Publication date: | 8th April 2003 |
| Author: | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anna Brailovsky, Constance Garnett |
| Publisher: | Modern Library an imprint of Random House Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 667 pages |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Narrative theme: Interior life General Fiction |
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women-the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia-both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin's honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett's drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original.
The Idiot features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Interior life, General Fiction
The Idiot is available in Paperback
The Idiot was written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anna Brailovsky, Constance Garnett and published by Modern Library an imprint of Random House Publishing Group
The Idiot has 667 pages
Yes it is part of Modern Library Classics series