{"product_id":"the-idiot","title":"The Idiot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDostoyevsky's great novel of suffering and sickness, innocence and greed, now in Penguin Clothbound ClassicsReturning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin - the titular 'idiot' - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife, and his three daughters. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated with her, he soon finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and finally, murder.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Dostoyevsky sought to portray in Prince Myshkin the purity of a 'truly beautiful soul' and explore the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world. David McDuff's translation brilliantly captures the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative. This edition also contains an introduction by William Mills Todd III, which is a fascinating examination of the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story of his Christ-like hero.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf you enjoyed The Idiot, you might like Anton Chekhov's Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, also available in Penguin Classics. 'McDuff's language is rich and alive'The New York Times Book Review'[The Idiot's] \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enarrative is so compelling'Rowan Williams\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50823324467504,"sku":"9780241739822","price":6990.0,"currency_code":"ISK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1090\/3582\/files\/9780241739822.jpg?v=1772718666","url":"https:\/\/www.salka.is\/products\/the-idiot","provider":"Salka - bókaútgáfa og bókabúð","version":"1.0","type":"link"}