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The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2003

Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of Prince Myshkin, a young man whose goodness sets him against a worldly society, in the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation.

The Idiot is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, serialized in The Russian Messenger in 1868 and 1869. Its central character, Prince Myshkin, is a young man whose goodness and simplicity lead worldly people to assume he lacks insight. Jo Nesbø calls Dostoevsky Hamsun’s Russian cousin and lists the tragedy, desperate love and courage he finds in it. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translated this 656-page Vintage edition from 2003.

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Jo Nesbø

Norwegian Crime Novelist and Musician

Dostoyevsky was Hamsun's Russian cousin. In this tale about a young nobleman whose goodness puts him at odds with an avaricious world, Dostoyevsky gives us tragedy, desperate love, human folly, epic courage, death, gallantry, and senseless sacrifice.

Article · November 2013

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