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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Eva Martin
出版
Open Road Media
, 2020-04-07
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Political
Fiction / Classics
ISBN
1504061446
9781504061445
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8RLaDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
A novel of innocence and iniquity, love and murder, by the nineteenth-century Russian author of
Crime and Punishment
and
The Brothers Karamazov
.
After several years in a Swiss sanatorium, twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin returns to Russian society to collect his rightful inheritance. But he soon crosses paths with the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose desire for Nastasya Filippovna will set the three of them on a tragic course. As author Fyodor Dostoevsky traces the effect of Myshkin’s innocence on the people around him in St. Petersburg, scandal escalates to murder . . .
“I think
The Idiot
to be a masterpiece—flawed, occasionally tedious or overwrought, like many masterpieces—but a fact of world literature just as important as the densely dramatic
Brothers Karamazov
or the brilliantly subtle and terrifying
Devils
. In those two novels, as in the simpler
Crime and Punishment
, Dostoevsky had plots and political and religious ideas working together. In
The Idiot
he is straining to grasp a story and a character converting themselves from Gothic to Saint’s Life on the run. What makes the greatness is double—the character of the prince, and a powerful series of confrontations with death. The true subject of
The Idiot
is the imminence and immanence of death.” —A. S. Byatt,
The Guardian
“Nothing is outside Dostoevsky’s province. . . . Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading.” —Virginia Woolf