Idiot (MM)
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
"My intention is to portray a truly beautiful soul". - Dostoevsky Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life - object poverty, incessant gambling, the death of his firstborn child - Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, just two years after completing Crime and Punishment. In it, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power and sexual conquest than with the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections. Extortion, scandal and murder follow, testing Myshkin`s moral feelings as Dostoevsky searches through the wreckage left by...
ISBN: 978-0-553-21352-2
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011