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 · The Idiot. by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by David McDuff. pp, Penguin Classics, £ The forms of 19th-century European fictions, including Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. From Joseph Frank's Introduction to The Idiot. The Idiot is the most autobiographical of Dostoevsky's novels, or at least the one in which autobiography obtrudes most overtly. There is the scene, for example, in which the prince attempts to gain admission to the Epanchin mansion from a recalcitrant footman, who is inclined to think him an impostor because of his far-from-fashionable clothes /5(). (Book From books) - Идиот = The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in –/5(K).

The Idiot. Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a fair-haired young man in his late twenties and a descendant of one of the oldest Russian lines of nobility, arrives in St. Petersburg on a November morning. He has spent the last four years in a Swiss clinic for treatment of his "idiocy" and epilepsy. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot At once 'The Idiot' is a complicated, beautiful and yet ultimately a somewhat flawed novel. Written shortly after 'Crime and Punishment', it seems like Dostoevsky wanted to invert Raskolnikov. Instead of a mad killer. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The simplest situation to come for legacy to Russia from abroad. In General, to get the money. Got knocked back. And all? Where there. It's Dostoevsky. Because "who of his land abandoned, and that from faith.". However, "Russia" is a mostly local women.

He began writing in his 20s, and his first novel, Poor Folk, was published in when he was His major works include Crime and Punishment (), The Idiot (), Demons () and The Brothers Karamazov (). His output consists of 11 novels, three novellas, 17 short novels and numerous other works. The Idiot (Penguin Classics) is an excellent timeless tale by the supremely good man Fyodor Dostoyevsky about the Idiot, possibly a character who has many traits that Dostoyevsky had himself. Dostoyevsky experienced much hardships in his life such that his stories of human conditions, thoughts and actions were convincingly authentic and therefore heart wrenching. The Idiot (pre-reform Russian: Идіотъ; post-reform Russian: Идиот, tr. Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in –