Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Paperback | Pages: 667 pages Rating: 4.18 | 120702 Users | 4664 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Идиот |
| ISBN: | 0679642420 (ISBN13: 9780679642428) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Prince Myshkin, Nastasya Filippovna, Rogozhin |
| Setting: | St. Petersburg, Russia |
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Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett’s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original story.Define Regarding Books The Idiot
| Title | : | The Idiot |
| Author | : | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 667 pages |
| Published | : | April 8th 2003 by Modern Library (first published 1869) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. American. Southern. Young Adult. Coming Of Age. Adult Fiction. Audiobook |
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Ratings: 4.18 From 120702 Users | 4664 ReviewsCommentary Regarding Books The Idiot
We tend to view innocence as an uplifting cleansing virtue. Contact with it is supposed to improve the soul. But this isnt always the case. Sometimes, in company, my five year old son will blurt out something I dont want outsiders to know and I end up blushing! His innocence causes me discomfort. I also remember that little girl from Aleppo who every day updated online the situation in the besieged city. Imagine the reactions of Assads regime to her online posts. Would they have been won over byIve been trying to review this book for over a week now, but I cant. Im struggling with something: How do I review a Russian literature classic? Better yet, how do I review a Russian literature classic without sounding like a total dumbass? (Hint: Its probably not going to happen.)First I suppose a short plot synopsis should be in order: The Idiot portrays young, childlike Prince Myshkin, who returns to his native Russia to seek out distant relatives after he has spent several years in a Swiss
This book disappointed me. I never thought I would be saying this with regard to a book by Dostoyevsky, but it's true. Perhaps this is only because Ive been spoiled by reading The Brothers Karamazov, which even admirers of The Idiot will likely admit is a much stronger work. Yet I was not merely unimpressed by this work, but was often greatly frustrated by it. To be concise, I found The Idiot to be a rambling mess. Anyone familiar with Dostoyevskys work will know that he is not a versatile
Are there countries in the world which are more likely to produce depressing literature than others? If so, Russia must be pretty much top of the list. I have yet to read a Russian novel which ends well for all the protagonists. I can only think of a few in which things end well for even a few of the protagonists. And Dostoyevsky of course loves his tragedies. The Idiot is one of them. While it's not as tragic as, say, Crime and Punishment, nearly all of its protagonists come to a sticky end,
"Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us." Dostoyevsky despised the view that a child's thoughts were not worthy of consideration, in fact he believed a child was necessary (aside from the obvious evolutionary necessity of children of course) in our society due to our increasingly selfish tendencies, and believed a child was always well intentioned. This does remind me of a certain character in
THE IDIOT: THE JOURNEY FROM RESURRECTION TO CRUCIFIXION I am selective in reading novels, particularly long ones, and I dither to dip my head into middling ones even if they offer some interesting perspectives on life, history or storytelling. I was wary when started reading The Idiot , since the drama spans over 660 pages. Having read the work, my feeling is Give me another 600 pages of this signature! The Idiot has made deep imprint in my psyche and I am sure it is going to stay with me
Prince Lev Nicolayevich Myschkin discovered relativity in 1886.Well, actually the scientific theory of relativity wasnt discovered until 30 years later, by Albert Einstein, but I dont think that discovery would have been possible without the relativistic ferment that had started sweeping through Europe in the mid-19th century, with its ultimate CHRISTIAN formulation in The Idiot, in 1886.Moral chaos is so cataclysmic to conservative spectators. So much so to Prince Myschkin, in fact, that he
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