The Idiot
A wholly good man returns to a society with no place for him.
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Prince Myshkin returns to Russian society with an unusual openness and compassion. His encounters with ambition, jealousy, and desire expose the difficulty of living by an uncompromising moral ideal.
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Prince Myshkin comes back to Russia after treatment for epilepsy in Switzerland, carrying an openness and honesty that everyone around him reads as simplicity. He is drawn into the rivalry over Nastasya Filippovna and into a friendship with the violent, jealous Rogozhin.
Dostoyevsky set out to portray a genuinely good man and then dropped him into a world of money, status and calculation to see what would happen. The result is one of his saddest books.
- What happens when transparent honesty meets a society that reads every statement as strategy.
- Why Myshkin’s compassion keeps making situations worse rather than better.
- How Nastasya Filippovna’s self-destruction is shaped by what has already been done to her.
- The bond between Myshkin and Rogozhin, and why pity and violence are so closely tied here.
- How Dostoyevsky uses epilepsy and the moments before a seizure as a kind of clarity.
- Why the novel questions whether goodness can survive contact with the world at all.
Book details
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Publisher
- Lexicon Publishing
- Language
- English
- Format
- Paperback
Additional information
- SKU
- TL-VHQ7JC7T
- Category
- Fiction
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