{"product_id":"the-idiot-9780375702242","title":"The Idiot","description":"\u003cb\u003eFyodor Dostoevsky's classic tale of one man's pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulation\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and \"be among people.\" Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant's son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this \"positively beautiful man\" on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's masterful translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot \u003c\/i\u003eis destined to stand with their versions of \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDemons\u003c\/i\u003e as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Translators: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichard Pevear has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Savinio, Pavel Florensky, and Henri Volohonsky, as well as two books of poetry. He has received fellowships or grants for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the French Ministry of Culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLarissa Volokhonsky was born in Leningrad. She has translated works by the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff into Russian. Together, Pevear and Volokhonsky have translated \u003cb\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Collected Tales\u003c\/b\u003e by Nikolai Gogol, and \u003cb\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Demons\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/b\u003e by Fyodor Dostoevsky. They were awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for their version of The Brothers Karamazov, and more recently Demons was one of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in France.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50572061409554,"sku":"9780375702242","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4df4d7a1-6c2e-4208-ad7f-64a9dfbf284c.jpg?v=1756202695","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-idiot-9780375702242","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}