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2617101The Idiot (Vintage Classics)https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-idiot--vintage-classics--9780553901894/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3683602/e1382cb5-78ae-434c-ba06-585a765c0631.jpg?v=638385725071570000269374MXNKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>Fyodor Dostoevskys classic tale of one mans pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulation</strong></p><p>The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and be among people. Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchants son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this positively beautiful man on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.</p><p>Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonskys masterful translation of <em>The Idiot</em> is destined to stand with their versions of <em>Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov,</em> and <em>Demons</em> as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.</p>...2553095The Idiot (Vintage Classics)269374https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-idiot--vintage-classics--9780553901894/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3683602/e1382cb5-78ae-434c-ba06-585a765c0631.jpg?v=638385725071570000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20129780553901894_W3siaWQiOiJhMTUyYmJlYS03MDk4LTQ5OTktYjMxMS03YjM1NWYxNzYwNmEiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjM1MCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjk4LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI1MiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDItMDVUMDY6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780553901894_<p>Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonskys masterful translation of <strong>The Idiot</strong> is destined to stand with their versions of <strong>Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov</strong>, and <strong>Demons</strong> as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.</p><p>After his great portrayal of a guilty man in <strong>Crime and Punishment</strong>, Dostoevsky set out in <strong>The Idiot</strong> to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and be among people. Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchants son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this positively beautiful man on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.</p>...(*_*)9780553901894_<p><strong>Fyodor Dostoevskys classic tale of one mans pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulation</strong></p><p>The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and be among people. Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchants son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this positively beautiful man on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.</p><p>Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonskys masterful translation of <em>The Idiot</em> is destined to stand with their versions of <em>Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov,</em> and <em>Demons</em> as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.</p>...9780553901894_Knopf Doubleday Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_e016e0b7-fdea-40be-bc91-06c281599138_9780553901894;9780553901894_9780553901894Fyodor DostoevskyInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-c52cab93-1681-4eb7-b988-07a859837ce9.epub2012-07-18T00:00:00+00:00Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group