The Idiot

A New Translation
The acclaimed translator of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov returns with a definitive new rendering of Dostoevskys most enigmatic and poignant novel
A haunting parable of innocence undone, The Idiot stands as Dostoevskys most personal and most disquieting novel. It follows the gentle and guileless Prince Myshkin, recently returned to St Petersburg from treatment in a Swiss sanatorium, whose radical honesty and spiritual clarity set him at odds with the vanities and cruelties of Russian high society. His presence unravels a web of greed, desire and wounded pride as he becomes entangled with the beautiful, self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna and the tormented Rogozhin. Can goodness persist in a world built on deceit? Or does purity, in such a world, become its own kind of delusion? In The Idiot, Michael R. Katz accentuates Dostoevskys dark ironies and turbulent rhythms while preserving the jagged emotiona