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TRANSLATIONS OF DOSTOEVSKYBY PEVEAR AND VOLOKHONSKY
The Adolescent (2003)The Idiot (2002)Demons (1994)Notes from Underground (1993)Crime and Punishment (1992)The Brothers Karamazov (1990)
FIRST VINTAGE CLASSICS EDITION, JULY 2003
Copyright © 2001 by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2002.
Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage Classics and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.
This translation has been made from the Soviet Academy of Sciences edition (Izdatel’stvo “Nauka”), volume 8 (Leningrad, 1973).
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821—1881.[Idiot. English]The idiot / Fyodor Dostoevsky; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky; introduction by Richard Pevear.p.    cm.eISBN: 978-0-553-90189-4I. Pevear, Richard, 1943—. II. Volokhonsky, Larissa. III. Title.PG3326.I3      2002891.73′3—dc21      2001033561
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CONTENTS
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Introduction
Translators’ Notes
PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
PART FOUR
Notes
About the Translators
INTRODUCTION
On a house near the Pitti Palace in Florence there is a plaque that reads: “In this neighborhood between 1868 and 1869 F. M. Dostoevsky completed his novel The Idiot.” It is strange to think of this most Russian of writers working on this most Russian of novels while living in the city of Dante. In fact the author’s absence from Russia can be felt in the book, if we compare it with his preceding novel, Crime and Punishment (1866), which is so saturated in place, in the streets, buildings, squares, and bridges of Petersburg, that the city becomes a living participant in events. Place has little importance in The Idiot. Petersburg and the residential suburb of Pavlovsk, where most of the action occurs, are barely described. There is little sense of a surrounding world or a wider human community. Russia is present in the novel not as a place but as a question — the essence of Russia, the role of Russia and the “Russian Christ” in Europe and in the world. It was precisely during the four years he spent abroad, from 1867 to 1871, that Dostoevsky brooded most intensely on ............

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