Bibliograph

The idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Type

Label

The idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Language

por

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The idiot

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Summary

Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Dostoyevsky set out to create a protagonist with "a truly beautiful soul" and to trace the fate of such an individual as he comes into contact with the brutal reality of contemporary society. The novel begins when the innocent epileptic Prince Myshkin - the 'idiot' - arrives in St Petersburg and finds himself drawn into a web of violent and passionate relationships that leads to blackmail, betrayal and eventually murder

Target audience

adult

Classification