The Idiot
Dostoevsky| Fyodor
Dostoevsky's novel of a truly good man adrift in a corrupt world. Prince Myshkin, returning to Russia after years in a Swiss sanatorium, is an innocent whose generosity and honesty earn him the label…
Dostoevsky's novel of a truly good man adrift in a corrupt world. Prince Myshkin, returning to Russia after years in a Swiss sanatorium, is an innocent whose generosity and honesty earn him the label 'idiot' from St. Petersburg society. Caught between two women and the machinations of those around him, his very goodness seems to bring disaster to everyone he touches.
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