The Idiot - Softcover

Vintage - Signet CJ 930 -This have been reprinted multiple time- with different translations introductions, that is the difference in some editions- Translated by Henry and Olga Carlisle Introduction by Harold Rosenberg - The Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most powerful indictment of a Russia struggling to emulate contemporary Europe while sinking under the weight of Western materialism. It is the portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society in which a "positively good man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his moral idealism. A New American Library book - NAL