The Idiot
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Returning to St Petersburg from a sanatorium, the gentle Prince Myshkin - known as 'the idiot' - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his family. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated, he soon finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn to a web of blackmail, betrayal and finally, murder. In prince Myshkin, Dostoyevsky portrays the purity of a 'truly beautiful soul' and explores the perils that innocence and goodness face in this corrupt world.
David Mcduff's translation brilliantly captures the novel's dreamlike language and elliptic flow of the narrative.
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ALL CREDITS TO: AUTHOR- FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY. TRANSLATOR- DAVID MCDUFF.
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