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The Idiot de Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Idiot

Autor Fyodor Dostoevsky
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 mai 2018

Remarcăm, încă de la primele pagini, o structură narativă densă, în care perspectivele multiple se intersectează într-un dans frenetic al ideilor și impulsurilor contradictorii. „The Idiot” nu este doar o cronică a societății ruse, ci o disecție a sufletului uman, operată cu precizia unui psiholog care a cunoscut abisul. În centrul acestei arhitecturi se află Prințul Mîșkin, o figură a purității absolute a cărei întoarcere într-o lume dominată de lăcomie și pasiune distructivă declanșează un seism moral. Subliniem modul în care Fyodor Dostoevsky reușește să mențină un echilibru fragil între realismul social și simbolismul religios, transformând o intrigă de salon într-o interogație metafizică despre posibilitatea binelui. Pe același raft cu Crime and Punishment de Fyodor Dostoevsky, această operă se distinge prin contrastul dintre lumina interioară a protagonistului și întunericul nihilist care începe să cuprindă Rusia epocii sale. Dacă în Crime and Punishment explorăm consecințele crimei și ale vinovăției, în „The Idiot” suntem martorii tragediei inocenței într-o lume care nu mai are loc pentru ea. Această lucrare ocupă un loc central în tetralogia marilor romane dostoievskiene, continuând explorarea limitelor umane începută în Poor Folk și rafinată ulterior în The Brothers Karamazov. Ritmul narațiunii este unul febril, marcat de dialoguri lungi, confesive, care alternează cu momente de o intensitate dramatică aproape insuportabilă, oferind cititorului o experiență de lectură profund interioară.

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ISBN-13: 9781781399781
ISBN-10: 1781399786
Pagini: 366
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: BENEDICTION CLASSICS

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Recomandăm această ediție Wordsworth Classics celor care doresc să exploreze profunzimile psihologiei dostoievskiene prin prisma unui personaj unic în literatura universală. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă nuanțată asupra luptei dintre idealism și cinism, primind acces la o traducere clasică ce păstrează cadența originală a textului. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege rădăcinile existențialismului și complexitatea morală a Rusiei imperiale.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) rămâne unul dintre cei mai influenți scriitori ai literaturii mondiale, recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a sonda ungherele cele mai obscure ale minții umane. Viața sa, marcată de o condamnare la moarte comutată în ultimul moment și de ani grei de muncă silnică în Siberia, a infuzat opera sa cu o profunzime spirituală și o urgență existențială rar întâlnite. Autor de romane fundamentale precum The Brothers Karamazov și Demons, Dostoevsky a influențat generații de gânditori, de la Nietzsche la Sartre, rămânând până astăzi un reper în explorarea condiției umane în fața modernității.

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November 1821-9 February 1881), was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, essayist and journalist. Dostoyevsky is usually regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived. Literary modernism, existentialism and various schools of psychology, theology and literary criticism have been profoundly shaped by his ideas. His works are often called prophetic because he so accurately predicted how Russia's revolutionaries would behave if they came to power. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His 1864 novella, Notes from Underground, is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. He specialized in the analysis of pathological states of mind that lead to insanity, murder and suicide and in the exploration of the emotions of humiliation, self-destruction, tyrannical domination and murderous rage. These major works are also renowned as great 'novels of ideas' that treat timeless and timely issues in philosophy and politics. Psychology and philosophy are closely linked in Dostoyevsky's portrayals of intellectuals, who 'feel ideas' in the depths of their souls. Finally, these novels broke new ground with their experiments in literary form.

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November 1821 - 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Dostoevsky's oeuvre consists of 11 novels, three novellas, 17 short stories, and numerous other works. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychologists in world literature. His 1864 novella Notes from Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends, and through books by Russian and foreign authors. His mother died in 1837 when he was 15, and around the same time, he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute. After graduating, he worked as an engineer and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, translating books to earn extra money. In the mid-1840s he wrote his first novel, Poor Folk, which gained him entry into St. Petersburg's literary circles. Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group that discussed banned books critical of Tsarist Russia, he was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last moment. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of compulsory military service in exile. In the following years, Dostoevsky worked as a journalist, publishing and editing several magazines of his own and later A Writer's Diary, a collection of his writings. He began to travel around western Europe and developed a gambling addiction, which led to financial hardship. For a time, he had to beg for money, but he eventually became one of the most widely read and highly regarded Russian writers. Dostoevsky was influenced by a wide variety of philosophers and authors including Pushkin, Gogol, Augustine, Shakespeare, Dickens, Balzac, Lermontov, Hugo, Poe, Plato, Cervantes, Herzen, Kant, Belinsky, Hegel, Schiller, Solovyov, Bakunin, Sand, Hoffmann, and Mickiewicz. His writings were widely read both within and beyond his native Russia and influenced an equally great number of later writers including Russians like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anton Chekhov as well as philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre. His books have been translated into more than 170 languages. (wikipedia.org)

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'The chief thing is that they all need him' -thus Dostoyevsky described Prince Myshkin, the hero of perhaps his most remarkable novel. As the still, radiant center of a plot whose turbulent action is extraordinary even for Dostoyevsky, Myshkin succeeds in dominating through sheer force a personality a cast of characters who vividly and violently embody the passions and conflicts of the 19th century Russia.

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Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, afflictions and manners. His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel. Dostoevsky supplies a harsh indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot.

Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, afflictions and manners.

His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel. Dostoevsky supplies a harsh indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot.