{"product_id":"the-idiot-9780679642428","title":"The Idiot","description":"Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original.\"\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":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749283135762,"sku":"9780679642428","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c7612991-62f1-4eee-b664-c174bc03647e.jpg?v=1764075292","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-idiot-9780679642428","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}