La gran novela de Dostoievski sobre un ingenuo que debe enfrentarse al mundo de los intereses econ鏔icos y la manipulaci鏮.
Traducci鏮 de Jos?La璯 Entralgo y Augusto Vidal.
Introducci鏮 de William Mills Todd III, catedr嫢ico de la Universidad de Harvard.
Tras retratar magistralmente la figura del culpable en
Crimen y castigo, Dostoievski ahonda en
El idiota en el alma torturada de un hombre inocente. Despu廥 de pasar varios a隳s en un sanatorio suizo, el joven y piadoso pr璯cipe Mishkin regresa a su Rusia natal para recibir una herencia y «mezclarse con la gente . Sin embargo, en San Petersburgo solo le aguarda una sociedad obsesionada con el dinero, el poder y la manipulaci鏮, que pondr?a prueba su moral y sus puros sentimientos. Antes de llegar a su destino conoce al inquietante Rogozhin, hijo de un acaudalado mercader, cuya fijaci鏮 por la hermosa Nastasia Filippovna acabar?por arrastrar a los tres protagonistas a un fatal desenlace.
La presente edici鏮 cuenta con la traducci鏮 magistral de Jos?La璯 Entralgo y Augusto Vidal. El estudio introductorio es de William Mills Todd III, catedr嫢ico de literatura y lenguas eslavas en la Universidad de Harvard.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Dostoevsky's great novel about a naive man who must confront a world of economic interests and manipulation.
Translated by Jos?La璯 Entralgo and Augusto Vidal.
Introduction by William Mills Todd III, professor at Harvard University.
After masterfully portraying the figure of the guilty party in
Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky delves into
The Idiot and explores the tortured soul of an innocent man. After spending several years in a Swiss sanatorium, the young and pious Prince Myshkin returns to his native Russia to claim an inheritance and "mingle with the people."
However, in St. Petersburg, he is met only by a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation, which will test his values and his innocence. Before reaching his destination, he meets the unsettling Rogozhin, son of a wealthy merchant, whose fixation on the beautiful Nastasia Filippovna will ultimately drag the three protagonists toward a fatal conclusion.
This edition features the masterful translation by Jos?La璯 Entralgo and Augusto Vidal. The introductory study is by William Mills Todd III, professor of Slavic languages and literature at Harvard University.
