The Idiot /
"The still, radiant center of an ambitious and remarkable novel, Prince Myshkin - the idiot - stands above and apart from characters who vividly and violently embody the passions and conflicts of nineteenth-century Russia. An almost comically innocent Christ figure, Myshkin is a "wholly be...
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Signet Classics,
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Publisher Address: | New York : |
Publication Dates: | [2010] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: |
English Russian |
Series: |
Signet classics
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Summary: |
"The still, radiant center of an ambitious and remarkable novel, Prince Myshkin - the idiot - stands above and apart from characters who vividly and violently embody the passions and conflicts of nineteenth-century Russia. An almost comically innocent Christ figure, Myshkin is a "wholly beautiful man" in a land of sinners, a man whose faith in the power of beauty contrasts sharply with the materialistic mores of his society. In him, his creator, Dostoyevsky, sees Russia's redemption."-- |
Item Description: | First Signet Classics printing (Ivanits introduction), April 2010. |
Carrier Form: | xxii, 660 pages ; 18 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [xix]-xxii). |
ISBN: |
9780451531520 (paperback) : 0451531523 (paperback) |
Index Number: | PG3326 |
CLC: | I512.44 |
Call Number: | I512.44/D724-25 |