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The Idiot

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett, Joseph Frank, Alan Myers, Anna Brailovsky
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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.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780679642428
ISBN10 0679642420
Series/Work OL166973W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Modern Library
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Accessible book Aristocracy (Social class) Atonement Brothers CHR 2004 Classic Literature Conditions sociales Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) Dictionaries English fiction English language English literature, translations Epileptics Épileptiques Fathers and daughters Fiction Frères German Histoire History

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