The Idiot / Fedor Dostoevsky ; translated by Alan Myers ; with an introduction by William Leatherbarrow.
By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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Contributor(s): Myers, Alan.
Material type: 
BookSeries: World's classics.Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992Description: xxix, 658 p. : map ; 18 cm.ISBN: 0192826042 .Subject(s): Russian fiction | Russia -- Social conditions -- FictionDDC classification: 891.733 DOS | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 891.733 DOS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00014401 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most powerful indictment of a Russia struggling to emulate contemporary Europe while sinking under the weight of Western materialism. It is the portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society in which a "positively good man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accomodate his moral idealism. Meticulously faithful to the original, this new translation includes explanatory notes and a critical introduction by W.J. Leatherbarrow.
Written under appalling personal circumstances when Dostoevky was travelling in Europe, The Idiot reveals the author's penetrating psychological insight and constitutes an indictment of a Russia struggling to emulate contemporary Europe.
"First published as a World's classics paperback 1992"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography: (page xxv).
The Idiot -- Explanatory Notes.
Translation of: Idiot.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Chronology (p. vii)
- Introduction (p. xi)
- Further Reading (p. xxxv)
- A Note on the Translation (p. xxxviii)
- The Idiot (p. 1)
- Notes (p. 719)