The Notebooks for The Idiot by Dostoyevsky Fyodor; Wasiolek Edward; Strelsky Katharine

Author:Dostoyevsky, Fyodor; Wasiolek, Edward; Strelsky, Katharine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2017-09-18T04:00:00+00:00

For the epilogue

I have written a fantastic novel, but never more actual characters (thirst for love and for truth, pride and lack of self-respect). (Incessant imaginary insults.)

He helps Ganechka and the heroine, but with deep-seated envy. The heroine sees through him and pursues him with her sarcasms (but he himself is profoundly self-loathing).

N.B.? (At one of these moments the heroine surrenders to him; his triumph; he tells her immediately after this that he is married.)

The heroine is ill. He is with his wife and the baby and makes her suffer. (The uncle; his wife is shown to him. The general.) He drives them all away. At this point the heroine comes to him. The baby dies. She hanged herself. (Umetskaia.) They search. Explanations in full: “I acted thus out of envy. I never loved you, I had lost her.”

N.B. Or else poison. Accusations. The apothecary. VI. Umetsky and so on. “Yes, I poisoned her.”

The letter.

The scene in which they go out searching: didn’t she hang herself? It was earlier, with the uncle. Then he falls at her feet and says, “I love you.”

He found her with the baby and Umetskaia on the deserted bank of the Neva—near a rift in the ice. She had handed the baby to Umetskaia. He brought her back home. He falls at her feet: “I love only you.” She forgives everything.

But she did not forgive the rape of the heroine, and she poisoned herself.

Characterization. Magnanimous principles, childhood. Envy. Indignation. It mounted in the general and his wife, in the uncle. He set fires and played tricks at the Umetskys. In Switzerland his bitterness swelled. He wanted to come back as a proud and magnanimous man. But he was deceiving himself, his envious pride served only to make him suffer. Self-contempt. His wife exonerated him of everything and consoled him with her forgiveness. The letter to him—in case they detected poison.

?N.B. Or else a natural death while out of her mind. The heroine is there. Letter to him written the week before at Umetskaia’s. She had been well educated.

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