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The Idiot

The Idiot

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 9390896703
ISBN13: 9789390896707
Publisher: Sanage Pub House
Published: May 10 2021
Pages: 642
Weight: 1.77
Height: 1.42 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. In the character of Prince Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting the positively good and beautiful man. The novel examines the consequences of placing such a unique individual at the centre of the conflicts, desires, passions and egoism of worldly society, both for the man himself and for those with whom he becomes involved.

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