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PENGUIN CLASSICS THE IDIOT - FJODOR M DOSTOJE...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot 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.Returning 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. David 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.Fyodor 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 Crime & Punishment  The Idiot and Demons.If you enjoyed The Idiot  you
might like Anton Chekhov's Ward No. 6 and Other Stories  also available in Penguin
Classics.'McDuff's language is rich and alive'The New York Times Book Review'[The Idiot's] ...
narrative is so compelling'Rowan Williams  Archbishop of Canterbury

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