Idiot

Dostoevsky attempts to depict the "positively beautiful man" — and writes a novel about the fate of a prophet in the modern world, where money is burned in the fireplace and hands on the candle, lies, kills, and goes insane.

About the series

"The Main Books of Russian Literature" is a joint series of the publishing house "Alpina. Prose" and the online project "Polka". The works published in it are selected by contemporary writers, critics, literary scholars, and educators. This is both an attempt to define what the Russian literary canon looks like today and a new perspective on well-known works: each book is accompanied by a preface from the authors of "Polka."