The Idiot
Language: English
1801-1917 Classic fiction Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Classics Criticism Fiction General General & Literary Fiction Literature - Classics Literature: Classics Novels; other prose & writers Russia Russia - Social conditions - 1801-1917 Russian Russian Novel And Short Story Social conditions
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 12, 2008
Description:
SUMMARY: The Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most powerful indictment of a Russia struggling to emulate contemporary Europe while sinking under the weight of Western materialism. It is the portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society in which a "positively good man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his moral idealism. Meticulously faithful to the original, this new translation includes explanatory notes and a critical introduction by W.J. Leatherbarrow.