Fëdor Dostoevskij

The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire …

From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces.Filled with many of the themes …

L'idiota è un romanzo di Fëdor Dostoevskij. Considerato uno dei massimi capolavori della letteratura russa, vuole rappresentare “un uomo positivamente buono”, un Cristo del XIX secolo. La stesura fu contemporanea all'esilio dello scrittore, dovuto ai debiti: ebbe inizio a Ginevra nel settembre del 1867, proseguì a …