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

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

Quotes