Аннотация
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
The Idiot
Translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
with an Introduction by Richard Pevear
Copyright © 2001
ISBN: 1857152549
CONTENTS
Introduction xi
Select Bibliography xxiv
Chronology xxvi
Translators' Notes xxxii
THE IDIOT
Part One 3
Part Two 177
Part Three 323
Part Four 459
Notes 617
INTRODUCTION
On a house near the Pitti Palace in Florence there is a plaque that reads: "In this neighborhood between 1868 and 1869 F. M. Dostoevsky completed his novel The Idiot." It is strange to think of this most Russian of writers working on this most Russian of novels while living in the city of Dante. In fact the author's absence from Russia can be felt in the book, if we compare it with his preceding novel, Crime and Punishment (1866), which is so saturated in place, in the streets,...
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