ISBN: 9780140447927
Editorial: Penguin
Año de edición: 2004
Edición: 1
N° Paginas: 732
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Críticas "A book that manages like no other to plunge fearlessly into suffering while at the same time illuminating the enduring, almost unspeakable beauty of the human." --Laurie Sheck, The Atlantic "One of the most excoriating, compelling, and remarkable books ever written: and without question one of the greatest." --A. C. Grayling "A masterpiece . . . a fact of world literature just as important as the densely dramatic Brothers Karamazov or the brilliantly subtle and terrifying Devils. . . . [an] excellent new translation." --The Guardian "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 The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov--and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic 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 into 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 a corrupt world. David McDuff's translation brilliantly captures the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative. This edition also contains an 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. Biografía del autor Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov rank among the greatest of the nineteenth century. David McDuff (translator) has translated many works of nineteenth-century Russian literature, including works by Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Leskov for Penguin Classics. William Mills Todd III (introducer) is a professor of Slavic languages at Harvard.
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Editorial: Penguin
- N° Paginas: 732
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
