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The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Idiot

Buch | Softcover
688 Seiten
2008
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-953639-9 (ISBN)
CHF 16,50 inkl. MwSt
Into a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. The tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism and disclose the spiritual emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate him. Myshkin's mission ends in idiocy and darkness, but it is the world that is rotten, not he.

Written under appalling personal circumstances when Dostoevsky was travelling in Europe, The Idiot not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most incisive indictment of Russia's struggling to emulate contemporary Europe and sinking under the weight of Western materialism.

This new translation by Alan Myers is meticulously faithful to the original and has a critical introduction by W. J. Leatherbarrow.

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Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.6.2008
Reihe/Serie Oxford World's Classics
Einführung William Leatherbarrow
Übersetzer Alan Myers
Zusatzinfo 1 map
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 195 mm
Gewicht 474 g
Themenwelt Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
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ISBN-10 0-19-953639-2 / 0199536392
ISBN-13 978-0-19-953639-9 / 9780199536399
Zustand Neuware
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