LovedThere's so much drama and so many wilds people, so many wild characters in The Idiot so far. So I'm really loving it. I'm having a really good time.
The Idiot (1916)
Creators: Mixed "Idiot" is the fifth novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. The novel was first published in the journal "Russian Herald" from January 1868 to February 1869. It is one of the most beloved works of the writer who most fully expressed both the moral and philosophical position of Dostoevsky and his artistic principles in the 1860s. The novel "Idiot" became a realization of the old creative ideas of Dostoevsky, his main character — Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, according to the author's judgment, is "a truly wonderful personality", he is the embodiment of goodness and Christian morality. And precisely because of his disinterestedness, kindness and honesty, the extraordinary love for people in the world of money and hypocrisy, the environs call Myshkin an "idiot". Pretty illustrations by Valentyna Mashtak provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.
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Lovedbut it's not his best book, but it's at the same time one of those books that is flawed but is somehow like more precious for its fallibility, for its lopsidedness.
MixedI think I gave the idiot like a 3.5 star or like a three star
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Dislikedthey make their characters very dramatic which is not a bad thing except when they get dramatic and they're having these long drawn out dialogues where that just are not compelling they're not interesting
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Mixedi read the idiot by your story and the reason that i got through it was because i was reading it every day on the train to university
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