General
The David McDuff translation
Characters
- Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin - the "idiot"
- Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova
- General Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin
- Lizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchin
- Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina
- Alexandra Ivanovna Yepanchin
- Adelaida Ivanovna Yepanchin
- Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin
- Hippolyte Terentyev
- Lebedev
- Burdovsky
Notes
"Bear in mind, dear Prince, that there is nothing more hurtful to a man of our time and race than to tell him he has no originality, has a weak character, lacks any particular talent and is an ordinary fellow. You didn’t even consider me worthy of being called a decent scoundrel, you know, I wanted to eat your bones for that just now! You insulted me worse than Yepanchin, who considers me (without words or wiles, in the simplicity of my soul, bear that in mind) capable of selling him my wife!"
"‘If you’re frightened of wolves, don’t go into the forest!’"
CH3-3
Poem by Heinrich Heine (1822) -> Pope who got angry with an Emperor
Prime and Rogozhin Parfyon. Staroobyadtsy ("Old Rituals"). -> Three-fignered cross.
- Rogozhin left twice at the altar
- Took fiance to see his mother
- "She loved you ever since that baday soiree" --Rogozhin