The Idiot

Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin— known as the “idiot”—pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his family. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated he soon finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail betrayal and finally murder. In Prince Myshkin Dostoyevsky portrays the purity of “a truly beautiful soul” and explores the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world.