![]() Myshkin has been receiving treatment for epilepsy in Switzerland for almost five years, and has no money Rogozhin, on the other hand, has just inherited an. He is sitting next to Rogozhin, a young man with a malicious smile, and Lebedev, a foolish clerk. ![]() His naive gaucheries give rise to extreme reactions among his new acquaintance, ranging from anguished protectiveness to mockery and contempt.īut even before reaching the city, during the memorable train journey that opens the novel, he has encountered the demonic Rogozhin, the son of a wealthy merchant who is in thrall to the equally doomed Natasha Filippovna: beautiful, capricious and destructively neurotic, she joins with the two weirdly contrasted men in a spiralling dance of death. Prince Myshkin is on a train pulling into St. The teeming St Petersburg community he enters is far from receptive to an innocent like himself, despite some early successes and relentless pursuit by grotesque fortune-hunters. Language: English: LoC Class: PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature: Subject: Historical fiction Subject: Russia - Social conditions - 1801. ![]() ![]() The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881: Translator: Martin, Eva (Translator) Title: The Idiot Note: Possibly a revision of the 1887 translation by Frederick Whishaw. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Idiot (Part 01 and 02) ![]()
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