6/5/2023 0 Comments The idiot book fyodor![]() ![]() His naive gaucheries give rise to extreme reactions among his new acquaintance, ranging from anguished protectiveness to mockery and contempt.īut even before reaching the city, during the memorable train journey that opens the novel, he has encountered the demonic Rogozhin, the son of a wealthy merchant who is in thrall to the equally doomed Natasha Filippovna: beautiful, capricious and destructively neurotic, she joins with the two weirdly contrasted men in a spiralling dance of death. The teeming St Petersburg community he enters is far from receptive to an innocent like himself, despite some early successes and relentless pursuit by grotesque fortune-hunters. ![]() ![]() Pavlicheff had met Professor Schneider in Berlin, and the latter had persuaded him to send the boy to Switzerland, to Schneider’s establishment there, for the cure of his epilepsy, and, five years before this time, the. The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society. His fits were so frequent then, that they made almost an idiot of him (the prince used the expression idiot himself). Download cover art Download CD case insert The Idiot (Part 01 and 02) The Idiot (Bantam Classic) Mass Market Paperback Jby Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author), Constance Garnett (Translator), Anne Hruska (Introduction) 1,669 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 0.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 21.39 5 Used from 21.36 10 New from 21. ![]()
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