TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
AU  - Avsey, Ignat
TI  - The idiot
SN  - 9781847493439
AV  - PG3326 .I3
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Alma Classics
KW  - Russia
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1801-1917
KW  - READING IN ENGLISH
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Russian literature
KW  - Literary classics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 689)
N2  - Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett’s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original story
ER  -