The idiot
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821-1881
The idiot / Fyodor Dostoevsky; translated by Ignat Avsey - London : Alma Classics, 2022. - 689 pages : illustrations ; 20cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 689).
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 story.
9781847493439
Russia--Fiction
Russia--Social conditions--Fiction--1801-1917
READING IN ENGLISH
Historical fiction
Russian literature
Literary classics
PG3326 / .I3
The idiot / Fyodor Dostoevsky; translated by Ignat Avsey - London : Alma Classics, 2022. - 689 pages : illustrations ; 20cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 689).
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 story.
9781847493439
Russia--Fiction
Russia--Social conditions--Fiction--1801-1917
READING IN ENGLISH
Historical fiction
Russian literature
Literary classics
PG3326 / .I3
