Dostoevsky's The Idiot: A Critical CompanionLiza Knapp Northwestern University Press, 1998 - 274 pages This book is designed to guide readers through Dostoevsky's The Idiot, first published in 1869 and generally considered to be his most mysterious and confusing work. |
Contents
The Novel | 27 |
The Notebooks for The Idiot | 53 |
Flights from The Idiots Womanhood | 105 |
Historicism Arrives at the Station | 130 |
Myshkin Through a Murky Glass Guessingly | 191 |
April 1628 1864 | 219 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 263 |
Contributors 275 | |
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