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Through the pages of "The Idiot," Dostoevsky once again has the opportunity to present us with the image of Russia during his time and to satirize people, things, and situations in his own genius way.
This novel, which has as its central hero the desperately naive and clueless, but by no means "idiotic," Prince Myshkin, was written entirely away from Russia, at a time when the great author was wandering hopelessly in Western Europe, trying to cope with his miserable finances, the epilepsy that had tormented him for years, his rejection as a writer by the critics of his time, and the hostility of the tsarist regime.
His hero is led to destruction, not because he lacks intelligence, but because he is so emotionally vulnerable that he is crushed under the weight of unbearable reality.
Using his imagination, Dostoevsky places his characters in extreme conditions, focusing on the idealized figure of Myshkin, the fateful beauty Nastasya Filippovna, and the passionate Parfyon Rogozhin, revealing the depths of their souls and confirming once again the timelessness of his work.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Publisher
- Patakis
- Publishers
- Patakis
- Type
- Classic Literature
- Subtitle
- Volume II
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 491
- Release Date
- 4/2001
- Publication Date
- 2001
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789603788676
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