The Idiot
Идиот
First published AD 1869, written in Russian
The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868–1869.
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Which translation to read
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky2002Our pick
Keeps the novel's nervous, comic texture and Myshkin's strange innocence.
Alan Myers1992
Fluent British English in the Oxford World's Classics.
Where it is set
- Saint Petersburg
Russia
Prince Myshkin, a young man in his mid-twenties and a descendant of one of the oldest Russian lines of nobility, is on a train to Saint Petersburg on a cold November morning. Source: Wikipedia, reviewed
