Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky\'s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov , and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.
The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatori.
After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment , Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky\'s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov , and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English