The title character of The Idiot is Prince Myshkin, a poor Russian nobleman who is returning to Russia after spending several years in a Swiss sanatorium to recover from epilepsy. Alone in the world, he is searching for some distant relatives and gets quickly caught up in a complicated love triangl...
The first thing I didn't expect was to find that Dostoevsky can be rather humorous. The Idiot is both a tragedy and a farce. I'm sure the farce is much more obvious to the 19th century audience it was meant for but still in evidence. However, the heavy themes of this Russian author are never too far...
Rereading this now, and have been totally glued to it so far. Every scene is just amazing, powerful, and compelling, and the characters are so real and familiar, they're so human, it's as though I know them all from life, though I can't think who they remind me of. I think reading this so soon after...
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