{"product_id":"the-idiot-paperback","title":"The Idiot (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most autobiographical novel by the author of \u003ci\u003eCrime\nand Punishment \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov―\u003c\/i\u003eand the namesake\nof Elif Batuman’s debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nReturning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve\nepileptic Prince Myshkin― known as the “idiot”―pays a visit to his distant\nrelative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his family.\nBut his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the\nbeautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated, he soon finds himself caught\nup in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and finally,\nmurder. In Prince Myshkin, Dostoyevsky portrays the purity of “a truly\nbeautiful soul” and explores the perils that innocence and goodness face in a\ncorrupt world.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nDavid McDuff's translation brilliantly captures the novel's idiosyncratic and\ndream-like language and the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative. This\nedition also contains an introduction by William Mills Todd III, which is a\nfascinating examination of the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story\nof his Christ-like hero.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFyodor Dostoyevsky \u003c\/b\u003e(1821–1881) was a Russian\nnovelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose novels \u003ci\u003eCrime and\nPunishment \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov \u003c\/i\u003erank among the\ngreatest of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDavid McDuff\u003c\/b\u003e (translator) has translated many works of\nnineteenth-century Russian literature, including works by Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy,\nand Leskov for Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWilliam Mills Todd III\u003c\/b\u003e (introducer) is a professor of Slavic\nlanguages at Harvard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45026012954831,"sku":"9780140447927","price":25.62,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_21b61924-53da-44f3-85c5-16f78928103c.jpg?v=1778059555","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/the-idiot-paperback","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}