{"product_id":"the-idiot-fjodor-m-dostojewskij","title":"The Idiot (Fjodor M. Dostojewskij)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eFyodor Dostoyevsky's \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e is an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Russian by David McDuff, with an introduction by William Mills Todd III.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReturning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin - the titular 'idiot' - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife, and his three daughters. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated with her, he soon finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and finally, murder. Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering Dostoyevsky sought to portray in Prince Myshkin the purity of a 'truly beautiful soul' and explore the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid McDuff's new translation brilliantly captures the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative. This edition also contains a new introduction by William Mills Todd III, which is a fascinating examination of the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story of his Christ-like hero.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow. From 1849-54 he lived in a convict prison, and in later years his passion for gambling led him deeply into debt. His other works available in Penguin Classics include \u003ci\u003eCrime \u0026amp; Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDemons\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like Anton Chekhov's \u003ci\u003eWard No. 6 and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'McDuff's language is rich and alive'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[\u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e's] ... narrative is so compelling'\u003cbr\u003eRowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella \u003ci\u003ePoor Folk \u003c\/i\u003e(1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Dead \u003c\/i\u003e(1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal \u003ci\u003eVremya\u003c\/i\u003e (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e and began work towards \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e (1866). The major novels of his late period are \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e (1868), \u003ci\u003eDemons \u003c\/i\u003e(1871-2) and \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e (1879-80). He died in 1881.\n\u003cb\u003eDavid McDuff\u003c\/b\u003e's translations for Penguin Classics include Dostoyevsky's \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e, and Babel's short stories.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 784 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65903223341405,"sku":"K053650377","price":11.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/5365037700001A.jpg?v=1789220377","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-idiot-fjodor-m-dostojewskij","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}