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The Idiot (pre-reform Russian: Идіотъ; post-reform Russian: Идиот, romanized: Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868–69.
The Myers translation of The Idiot has been chosen for publication in the People's Republic of China (in English with notes in Chinese). This translation is described in the Oxford Guide to Translated Literature in English (2000) as the best currently available. [4] [5]
Larissa Volokhonsky (Russian: Лариса Волохонская) was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, on 1 October 1945.After graduating from Leningrad State University with a degree in mathematical linguistics, she worked in the Institute of Marine Biology (Vladivostok) and travelled extensively in Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka (1968-1973).
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (30 January 2003). Crime and Punishment. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 978-0-14-044913-6; Fyodor Dostoyevsky (27 February 2003). The Brothers Karamazov. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 978-0-14-191568-5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (31 August 2004). The Idiot. Penguin Group US. ISBN 978-1-101-16055-8. [4] Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2003) The House ...
Translating relatively little, he is best known for his translations of Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, [2] Poor Folk. He also translated Aleksey Pisemsky, [3] Elias von Cyon, Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, Ivan Sechenov and Nikolai Leskov.
Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature.She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English.
Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin (pre-reform Russian: князь Левъ Николаевичъ Мышкинъ; post-reform Russian: князь Лев Николаевич Мышкин, romanized: knyazʹ Lev Nikoláyevich Mýshkin) is the main protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1869 novel The Idiot.
Magarshack was born in Riga, in present-day Latvia, at the time part of the Russian Empire.In 1920, he moved to the United Kingdom in order to study.. After graduating from University College London with a degree in English Language and Literature in 1924, Magarshack attempted to make a career out of journalism, and then out of writing crime fiction, neither of which were successful.