The Idiot
by Fydor Dostoevsky | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
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ISBN: Global Overview for this book
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probably bought at one of the Cazenovia Public Library's huge annual summer booksales
from the back cover:
"My intention is to portray a truly beautiful soul." -- Dostoevsky
From this resolve emerged the character Prince Myshkin, the saint-like man whose rare goodness evokes as much mistrust as love in a society more concerned with wealth, power and sexual conquest than with the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin's disintegration, reinforced by his daily increasing awareness of human misery, is final proof of the inability of any man to bear the burden of moral perfection in an imperfect world.
published 1963, 597 pages, mass market paperback
from the back cover:
"My intention is to portray a truly beautiful soul." -- Dostoevsky
From this resolve emerged the character Prince Myshkin, the saint-like man whose rare goodness evokes as much mistrust as love in a society more concerned with wealth, power and sexual conquest than with the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin's disintegration, reinforced by his daily increasing awareness of human misery, is final proof of the inability of any man to bear the burden of moral perfection in an imperfect world.
published 1963, 597 pages, mass market paperback
