The idiot / Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated by Henry and Olga Carlisle ; with an introduction by Harold Rosenberg.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Publisher: 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. : Signet Classic, c1980Description: xxii, 639 pages : 18 cm. illustrationsContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0451524926 [newsprint]Other title: Revised and Updated BibliographyUniform titles: Idiot. English Subject(s): Russian fiction -- Translations into English | English fiction -- Translations from RussianDDC classification: Summary: Summary: -thus Dostoyevsky described Prince Myshkin, the hero of perhaps hismost remarkable novel. As the still, radiant center of a plot whose turbulent action is extraordinary even for Dostoyevsky, Myshkin succeeds in dominating through sheer force of personaliyty a cast of characters who vividly and violently embody the passions and conflicts of 19th-century Russia. The author's concern with sin and redemption is here in full measure; but there is another, more powerful motives as well: a desire to offer man a new alternative in facing the painful dilemmas of the human condition. As Harold Rosenberg writes in his Introduction to this notable translation: "Although written over one hundred years ago, The Idiot is an advanced instance of the modernist mingling of art and life. It is a work that is itself an action aimed at producing social, cultural and even political consequences."
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Summary: -thus Dostoyevsky described Prince Myshkin, the hero of perhaps hismost remarkable novel. As the still, radiant center of a plot whose turbulent action is extraordinary even for Dostoyevsky, Myshkin succeeds in dominating through sheer force of personaliyty a cast of characters who vividly and violently embody the passions and conflicts of 19th-century Russia. The author's concern with sin and redemption is here in full measure; but there is another, more powerful motives as well: a desire to offer man a new alternative in facing the painful dilemmas of the human condition. As Harold Rosenberg writes in his Introduction to this notable translation: "Although written over one hundred years ago, The Idiot is an advanced instance of the modernist mingling of art and life. It is a work that is itself an action aimed at producing social, cultural and even political consequences."
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