{"product_id":"the-idiot-isbn-9780241739822","title":"The Idiot","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe most autobiographical novel by the author of \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov—\u003c\/i\u003eand the namesake of Elif Batuman’s debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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.“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.” \u003cb\u003e—Laurie Sheck, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “One of the most excoriating, compelling, and remarkable books ever written: and without question one of the greatest.” \u003cb\u003e—A. C. Grayling\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A masterpiece . . . a fact of world literature just as important as the densely dramatic \u003ci\u003eBrothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e or the brilliantly subtle and terrifying \u003ci\u003eDevils\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . [an] excellent new translation.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “McDuff's language is rich and alive.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[\u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e's] narrative is so compelling.” \u003cb\u003e—Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFyodor Dostoyevsky \u003c\/b\u003e(1821–1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose novels \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov \u003c\/i\u003erank among the greatest of the nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDavid McDuff\u003c\/b\u003e (translator) has translated many works of nineteenth-century Russian literature, including works by Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Leskov for Penguin Classics. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWilliam Mills Todd III\u003c\/b\u003e (introducer) is a professor of Slavic languages at Harvard.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233686466789,"sku":"NP9780241739822","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780241739822.jpg?v=1767739904","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-idiot-isbn-9780241739822","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}