I seem to admire Dostoyevsky's book titles which leads me to buying his books! However, the books turn out to be boring and I cannot get his point. 'The Idiot' was the first book I read for him, after it I read 'Notes from the Underground' and other short stories, all because of the titles... There ...
This translation in particular is superb. At times, the book is actually funny -- something I've long been told by Russian speakers is usually lost in translation.
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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