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The Idiot; a novel in four parts / Translation by Constance Garnett/ Introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky / Illustrated with wood-engravings by Fritz Eichenberg

By:

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, (1821-1881)

Contributor(s):

Garnett, Constance

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : The Heritage Press , c1956.Description: 560 p. : illus. ; 27 cmSubject(s):

Literature -- -Russian

Genre/Form:

Historical fiction

DDC classification:

FIC DOS

Abstract: 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.

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Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC DOS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		003881

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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.

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