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The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1869)
Prince Myshkin, a genuinely good man — innocent, compassionate, and epileptic — returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and is destroyed by a society that cannot comprehend or tolerate his goodness.
Historical Significance:
Dostoyevsky set himself an impossible challenge with The Idiot: "to portray a perfectly beautiful man." He modeled Myshkin partly on Christ and partly on Don Quixote — a pure soul in a corrupt world. Published serially in 1868-69,...
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Prince Myshkin, a genuinely good man — innocent, compassionate, and epileptic — returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and is destroyed by a society that cannot comprehend or tolerate his goodness.
Historical Significance:
Dostoyevsky set himself an impossible challenge with The Idiot: "to portray a perfectly beautiful man." He modeled Myshkin partly on Christ and partly on Don Quixote — a pure soul in a corrupt world. Published serially in 1868-69,...
Read free on BoingyBooks: https://boingybooks.com/marketplace/product.php?id=224
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