The Idiot: A New Translation

A definitive new rendering of Dostoevsky’s most enigmatic and deeply felt work.

A haunting parable of innocence undone, The Idiot stands as Dostoevsky’s most personal—and most disquieting—novel. It follows the gentle and guileless Prince Myshkin, recently returned to St. Petersburg from treatment in a Swiss sanatorium, whose radical honesty and spiritual clarity set him fatally at odds with the vanities and cruelties of Russian high society. His presence unravels a web of greed, desire, and ...