The Idiot

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 empti 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 story.