Summary
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky: Idiot
Translated by Zlatko Crnković
"Idiot" is one of the most significant novels not only within the oeuvre of the famous Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, but also of world literature in general.
Returning by train from Switzerland to Petrograd, Prince Lav Nikolayevich Myshkin, who is abroad treated for epilepsy, meets Parfjon Rogožin, passionately in love with the capricious beauty Nastasja Filipovna. In the unsurpassed polyphonic novel structure, which Dostoevsky both created and developed to perfection, scenes of the painful inner division of his characters unfold before us, ethical and existential questions are sharpened to the extreme, which are precisely embodied in certain people, leading them to the need for dramatic and radical solutions.
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