Thoughts on Dostoevsky's "The Idiot": with "The Brothers Karamazov or The Decline of Europe" and "The Voices of the Saint"

"Already half of Eastern Europe is on its way to chaos, driving drunkenly along the edge of the abyss in a holy delusion, and singing as it goes, singing drunkenly and hymn-like as Dmitri Karamazov sang." This edition contains two of Hesse's core works on Dostoevsky, plus a related essay on the Psychology of Saintliness titled The Voices and the Saint (Die Stimmen und der Heilige), published in 1918. This new edition features a fresh, contemporary translation of Hesse's commentary on Dostoe...