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The Idiot (pre-reform Russian: Идіотъ; post-reform Russian: Идиот, romanized: Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868–69.
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.
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Aug 31, 2004 · In Prince Myshkin, Dostoyevsky portrays the purity of “a truly beautiful soul” and explores the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world. David McDuff's translation brilliantly captures the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative.
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May 24, 2024 · The Idiot, novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, published in Russian as Idiot in 1868–69. The narrative concerns the unsettling effect of the “primitive” Prince Myshkin on the sophisticated, conservative Yepanchin family and their friends.
Jul 1, 1983 · 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.”.
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Jun 21, 2021 · Mrs. General Epanchin was a proud woman by nature. What must her feelings have been when she heard that Prince Muishkin, the last of his and her line, had arrived in beggar’s guise, a wretched idiot, a recipient of charity—all of which details the general gave out for greater effect!
The Idiot, written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published serially from 1868—1869, is a novel that revolves around Prince Myshkin, a benevolent and naive young man who returns to Russian society after a period of treatment for epilepsy.
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