# Gli Idioti = The Idiots

By Joseph Conrad.

"Gli Idioti = The Idiots" by Joseph Conrad is a short story first published in 1896. Set in rural Brittany, it follows a farming couple whose children are born with intellectual disabilities. As the strain of their circumstances intensifies, Jean-Pierre and Susan Bacadou face mounting desperation about their family's future and the farm's succession. The story builds toward a violent climax involving murder and suicide, all framed by the narrator's encounter with "the idiots" on a country road. Conrad's first published story explores themes of isolation and human desperation. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English, Italian
- Editor: J. E. Mansion
- Translator: Hilda Campioni
- Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century; Farmers -- Fiction; Husband and wife -- Fiction; Families -- Fiction; Brittany (France) -- Fiction; English fiction -- Translations into Italian; Children with mental disabilities -- Fiction

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