The Idiot; a novel in four parts
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881)
The Idiot; a novel in four parts / Translation by Constance Garnett/ Introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky / Illustrated with wood-engravings by Fritz Eichenberg - New York : The Heritage Press , c1956. - 560 p. : illus. ; 27 cm.
The Idiot, 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 accommodate his moral idealism.
Translated from the Russian to English.
Literature---Russian
Historical fiction
FIC DOS
The Idiot; a novel in four parts / Translation by Constance Garnett/ Introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky / Illustrated with wood-engravings by Fritz Eichenberg - New York : The Heritage Press , c1956. - 560 p. : illus. ; 27 cm.
The Idiot, 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 accommodate his moral idealism.
Translated from the Russian to English.
Literature---Russian
Historical fiction
FIC DOS
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