Idiot

Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin returns to Russia after a stay at a sanatorium and finds himself drawn into a complex love triangle. His sincere impulses and feelings collide with the cruel world of jealousy, vanity and the satiety of those around him.

Such rich plots are always “doomed” to automatically evoke the effect of presence in the reader. The secret is not only and not so much in the twists and turns of events, but in the superbly written characters and the electric discharges between them. The sum of all the components is the transformation of the effect of presence into the “effect of participation”: immersing yourself in the novel, you first become an invisible witness of the events, and then you become so closely associated with the main character that you look through his eyes and measure his world with the beating of your own heart. And then the main question arises: how to survive in this world, which seemed fictional and suddenly became so real, and how not to go crazy here. In the end, can society determine the degree of someone’s “normality”? In general, which of us is Prince Myshkin?

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Year of issue: 2024
Publisher: Eksmo
Cover type: soft cover
Pages: 704
Dimensions: 200x126x34 mm
ISBN: 978-5-04-194859-7