The Idiot
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it mean to be truly good in a world consumed by greed, pride, and moral corruption? Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot introduces Prince Lev Myshkin, a kind-hearted epileptic nobleman who returns to St. Petersburg after years of treatment in a Swiss sanatorium, only to find himself ensnared in a society that mistakes his sincere innocence for foolishness. Set against the glittering but morally bankrupt backdrop of nineteenth-century Russian society, the novel chronicles Myshkin's tragic entanglement with two mesmerising women — the proud, self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna and the tender Aglaya Yepanchina — as he attempts to navigate a world wholly unprepared for genuine virtue. First published in 1869, The Idiot stands as one of Dostoyevsky's most psychologically penetrating works, presenting a searing indictment of materialism and social hypocrisy through the prism of a Christ-like figure undone by his own purity. The novel illustrates the author's genius for inhabiting the darkest corridors of the human psyche, blending compassion with tragedy in prose of extraordinary emotional intensity. Dostoyevsky's unflinching portrait of a man too good for his world raises a question that haunts every page: in a fallen world, is genuine goodness not a virtue, but a sentence?
Author: Dostoyevsky
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it mean to be truly good in a world consumed by greed, pride, and moral corruption? Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot introduces Prince Lev Myshkin, a kind-hearted epileptic nobleman who returns to St. Petersburg after years of treatment in a Swiss sanatorium, only to find himself ensnared in a society that mistakes his sincere innocence for foolishness. Set against the glittering but morally bankrupt backdrop of nineteenth-century Russian society, the novel chronicles Myshkin's tragic entanglement with two mesmerising women — the proud, self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna and the tender Aglaya Yepanchina — as he attempts to navigate a world wholly unprepared for genuine virtue. First published in 1869, The Idiot stands as one of Dostoyevsky's most psychologically penetrating works, presenting a searing indictment of materialism and social hypocrisy through the prism of a Christ-like figure undone by his own purity. The novel illustrates the author's genius for inhabiting the darkest corridors of the human psyche, blending compassion with tragedy in prose of extraordinary emotional intensity. Dostoyevsky's unflinching portrait of a man too good for his world raises a question that haunts every page: in a fallen world, is genuine goodness not a virtue, but a sentence?