andquot; My intention is to portray a truly beautifulsoul.andquot; -- Dostoevsky Despite the harsh circumstancesbesetting his own life -- object poverty, incessant gambling, thedeath of his firstborn child -- Dostoevsky produced a secondmasterpiece, The Idiot, just two years after completing Crime andPunishment. In it, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust intothe heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power and sexualconquest than with the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon findshimself at the center of a violent love triangle in which anotorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for hisaffections. Extortion, scandal and murder follow, testing Myshkin'smoral feelings as Dostoevsky searches through the wreckage left byhuman misery to find andquot; man in man.andquot; The Idiot is aquintessentially Russian novel, one that penetrates the complexpsyche of the Russian people. andquot; They call me a psychologist,andquot; wrote Dostoevsky. andquot; That is not true. I'm only arealist in the higher sense; that is, I portray all the depths ofthe human soul.andquot;
【作者简介】
Patrick F. McManus has written twelve books and two plays.There are nearly two million copies of his books in print,including his bestselling "They Shoot Canoes Don't They?"; "TheNight The Bear Ate Goombaw"; and "A Fine and Pleasant Mystery," Hedivides his time between Spokane, Washington, and Idaho.
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