The Idiot
30 hrs. 27 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrator
Alexander Bordukov
Narrator
Alexander Bordukov
Description
The young prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to Russia from Switzerland, where he was being treated for a severe illness. After several years spent in isolation, Myshkin enters Petersburg society—steeped in hatred, envy, and злоба. The prince pities these people, sees them perishing, and tries to save them, but despite all efforts he can change nothing. Lev Nikolayevich is endowed with Christian love and kindness; he sincerely wants to bring peace, but the lack of spirituality and disbelief in modern society become an insurmountable obstacle to achieving this goal. Alongside Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Dickens’ Mr. Pickwick, Dostoevsky’s comic hero—as an embodiment of moral beauty—belongs to the greatest idealistic figures in world literature.
In the end, can society determine someone’s degree of “normality”? After all, who among us is Prince Myshkin?
In the end, can society determine someone’s degree of “normality”? After all, who among us is Prince Myshkin?
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